Nearing the end of the Japan viewing challenge on ICM,I decided to warm up for Horror viewings in October. Having read comments about it from UK reviewer Kim Newman and in British mag The Dark Side,I got set to visit the body builder in hell.
View on the film:
Fittingly set in a house which the residence can't escape from, the movie for years appeared stuck from ever seeing the light of day,as it went from being filmed in 1995,not edited until 2005,fully wrapped up in 2009,only to be left on the shelf until it finally reached DVD-R in 2012!
Filmed before a new wave of J-Horror hit, the passing of time give writer/director/ star Shinichi Fukazawa's creation a rough-edge eerie atmosphere, seeping from the graininess of shooting on video wrapped round grubby Splatter Horror shocks. Inspired from The Evil Dead (1981-also reviewed) in a swift haunted house/cabin tale and wacky jet-black comedy visual gags, Fukazawa yanks a tree branch and turns the flick into it's own gleefully nuts Horror,thanks to handmade practical effects of a laughing head, a stop-motion headless body,and spider-like hands all being drenched in blood when running towards the body builder in hell.
View on the film:
Fittingly set in a house which the residence can't escape from, the movie for years appeared stuck from ever seeing the light of day,as it went from being filmed in 1995,not edited until 2005,fully wrapped up in 2009,only to be left on the shelf until it finally reached DVD-R in 2012!
Filmed before a new wave of J-Horror hit, the passing of time give writer/director/ star Shinichi Fukazawa's creation a rough-edge eerie atmosphere, seeping from the graininess of shooting on video wrapped round grubby Splatter Horror shocks. Inspired from The Evil Dead (1981-also reviewed) in a swift haunted house/cabin tale and wacky jet-black comedy visual gags, Fukazawa yanks a tree branch and turns the flick into it's own gleefully nuts Horror,thanks to handmade practical effects of a laughing head, a stop-motion headless body,and spider-like hands all being drenched in blood when running towards the body builder in hell.