AKB_Lucas

AKB_Lucas

Favorite films

  • The Face of Another
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
  • Unhinged

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  • The Brides Wore Blood

    ★★★★★

  • Blood Bride

    ★★★★★

  • Blood Bride

    ★★★★★

  • The Deadly Intruder

    ★★★½

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  • Carnage for Christmas

    Carnage for Christmas

    ½

    Imagine being stuck in a conversation with the biggest douchebag you've ever met - they talk about multiculturalism with a fake accent, pretend to be gay and reek of stale Patchouli oil ... Now imagine sitting thru the movie version of that ..

  • In a Violent Nature

    In a Violent Nature

    ★★★

    The effectiveness of horror, as with any other genre of film, is driven by the humanity .. The characters .. The gore, the violence, the vengeance is meaningless unless it is coupled with the sadness and the reasoning ..

    Without characters - people we get to know - what you are left with is silly violence - a failure ie Murder Set Pieces ..

    .. or in the case of In A Violent Nature, something that teeters on the edge…

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  • Angel Guts: Nami

    Angel Guts: Nami

    ★★★★★

    At times surreal, other times brutally honest, 1979's Angel Guts: Nami is an emotional and visual onslaught which, unlike any Western film of similar subject matter, is, above all, rooted not in action or violence, but in sadness and frailty ..

    The beautiful Eri Kanuma portrays Nami, a tenacious writer for Women's magazine, one of Japan's most popular .. Nami is in the midst of writing articles based to the experiences of rape victims, and the consequences these crimes have…

  • Angel Guts: Red Porno

    Angel Guts: Red Porno

    ★★★★★

    Director Toshiharu Ikeda opens his 1981 film Angel Guts: Red Porno with a lingering still shot of Nami, portrayed by the incredibly beautiful Jun Izumi, looking into the camera, bound with rope, posing for the film's namesake, Red Porno magazine .. No sooner do we see the full shot, the photo reverses to negative, and thus begins a film that has no business being as well made as it is, a film about the other side .. the opposite  ..…