A film about the life of Lucha Libre legend Vampiro is heading to select theatres and video on demand in September. Nail In The Coffin: The Rise And Fall Of Vampiro brings us a candid and unfiltered look at the career and life of the AAA superstar.

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Vampiro, whose real name is Ian Hodgkinson, is a Canadian professional wrestler who moved to Mexico to escape a dark past of criminal activity and working for the mob and inadvertently became one of Mexico's biggest professional wrestling stars.

The film opens with a frankly unusual behind-the-scenes look at Hodgkinson fulfilling his role as Director of Talent for AAA, one of mexico's top Lucha Libre promotions. We see him producing from backstage during one of their shows and get a rare look at some of the issues that crop up backstage that the wrestling industry usually brushes under the carpet, these ones involving the notorious Sexy Starr and Jeff Jarrett.

One of the things I really liked about this opening sequence is how Vampiro drew comparison between actually wrestling in the ring, and his backstage work as a producer and how he considers it 'still wrestling'. I found this an interesting observation and one that makes perfect sense. This must be why so many wrestlers go on to be producers.

The film then shifts slightly to show us how Vampiro got to this stage of his career, starting out as a hockey player who wanted to get into wrestling but ended up working as an enforcer for the mob. Needing to escape he moved to Mexico where he began a career that saw him, alongside Konnan, rise to the top of AAA thanks to his unique look and good looks that made him popular with the ladies.

We also see Vampiro during his time with WCW where the wrestler, and others in the industry at the time, talk extremely frankly about how Vampiro's star quality was wasted by the promotion and how he was prevented from being more than just an enhancement talent.

The other two focusses of the film are Hodgkinson's relationship with his daughter which is the emotional undercurrent of the whole thing and a really lovely thing to see. This went hand-in-hand with the other main focus which was Hodgkinson struggling with when to end his wrestling career, after struggling with how it was forcing him to take time away from his daughter as well as physically breaking him.

We've also seen recently in WWE, with the Undertaker documentary The Last Ride, that struggling with when to stop wrestling is something that all wrestlers go through. In this film we see Hodgkinson and his daughter having a frank discussion about how wrestling 'has no exit strategy' and how he 'hates professional wrestling.'

This was perhaps the most shocking thing to see given that Vampiro is one of the iconic figures to ever step foot in the ring, not just in Mexico, but in the entire business and that, actually, there are parts of him that wish he'd never been a professional wrestler.

This is shown throughout as often we'd see footage of Vampiro competing in the ring and then footage of Hodgkinson being advised by a doctor to stop, and struggling to even walk. We learn he's had over twenty concussions and most of his body is afflicted with arthritis, and we see that he eventually gets diagnosed with Alzheimers. The physical and mental toll wrestling has on its performers isn't unexplored ground, but it's particularly effected here when the emotional stakes of Vampiro's daughter are present and pressing.

One of the best scenes in the film is when Ian Hodgkinson attends his daughter Dasha's graduation and you can see the emotional conflict in his face. All he wants to do is protect and look after his daughter, as she's the most important thing in the world to him, more important than anything he does in wrestling, but he realises that she's growing up. It's clear that Hodgkinson has regrets based in the time spent away from his daughter and has issues believing that he is a good father.

That's where Nail In The Coffin: The Rise And Fall Of Vampiro really shines, when it focusses on the relationship between a father conflicted between needing to wrestle to support his daughter, but wanting to stop, and his daughter, who, up until the film was made, was unaware of most of her father's struggles.

But, as a wrestling documentary about the life of one of the industries biggest stars it also really works, presenting a clear history on how Vampiro's career started. The amount of footage that they managed to get hold of, all across Vampiro's career from start to finish, is very impressive. For both these reasons it's well worth a watch!

Keep your eyes peeled for an exclusive interview with Vampiro about his upcoming documentary

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