Jap horror flicks - I dunno, man. I'm told 'Guinea Pig' really delivers, but tempura slashers usually go like this -
Long scene of snow falling (10 minutes)
Office scene, some gay-ass birthday party or something (20 minutes)
Man gets eyeballs ripped out, skinned alive and forced to eat own scrotum (offscreen, 5 seconds)
Scenic countryside, loads of boring dialogue. (30 minutes)
Woman violated by radioactive metal aliens (offscreen), then decapitated - onscreen, but 1.5 seconds.
Comedy bits with drunken salarymen in bar (15 minutes), followed by introduction of weird character who does Robin Williams-type ADHD shtick for 15 minutes before being sliced up by Ginsu knives and having brain sucked out through nostrils - all offscreen, of course.
Woman wakes up and says, "Wow, what a weird dream!" Finis.
Now doesn't this seem like cheating to you? Especially since the video boxes carry blurbs like 'A sickeningly disturbing and repulsive onslaught of torture and carnage like the Japanese are notorious for' but how hard is that to accomplish when you don't SEE any of it! Most of these don't even deserve an '18' rating, I'd rather waste the money on POW-camp footage. Plus it ruins it for me the way they break up all the sadism bits with comedy stuff, although I DID love the bit in 'Freezer' where the rapist is so engrossed with the Playstation (subtitles - "Die! Die you piece of shit! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die you bastard!" - spoken to video game) that he doesn't realise he's being asphyxiated with the electrical wire
― dave q, Sunday, 22 December 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)
'ISoyG' definitely proves that for that sleazy, sick ambience, by far the best strategy is to have no music on the soundtrack altogether (either that or various blips and bleeps, or fragmented shit like 'Crash')
― dave q, Sunday, 22 December 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)
One can only hope that one day Robin Williams really will get his brain sucked out through his nostrils.
― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 22 December 2002 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)
Isn't I Spit On Your Grave a relatively well-known American film from the 70s? Raped woman wreaks gory revenge on her attackers or some such.
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 23 December 2002 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)
seven years pass...
THE IRISH Film Classification Office has banned the DVD re-release of Meir Zarchi’s notorious 1978 horror film I Spit on Your Grave. The body, formerly the Irish Film Censor’s Office, has, in recent years, been reluctant to ban films outright, so this must be viewed as an unusual move.
The reason given for declining to issue a certificate for the DVD, was the depiction of “acts of gross violence and cruelty towards humans”.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)
one year passes...