Such a pointed horror film. It feels as if an alien took every slasher and threw it through their viewpoint. Purposefully stilted performances, funny misogynist writing that hearkens back and parodies slashers of old. Completely unlikeable characters all around.
This movie is ultra human and inhuman at the same time. It's a bizarre experience and full of bullshit artists, but perhaps the real bullshit artist is the person behind the movie itself.
There's quite a bit of disco too but…
This movie is mental, it piddles along in essence like life. From one bizarre situation to another.
We just start at our main character moving into a new place, falling in with a smutty exploitation director and filming peep movies. Falling in a bizarre love with a peep-ee?
Urban guerilla terrorism, black power movements. It’s 1970 and fuck does this feel timeless.
It manages to be genuinely funny, slice-of-life, and also very out there story wise. De Palma with his…
It has been so many years since I’ve seen this.
It serves as a nice prequel, adapted from the manga which was also a prequel.
I’ll start with the good, the fight scenes look excellent and Ichi is perfect as ever. The acting by the main characters comes across nicely and the story, well…it’s a bit simple but works.
Now the bad, the editing is absurd. Weird choices all around and it comes off looking very amateurish. The music is…
Nice to see a batty Dracula and he is vicious in this. The kills are quick and violent which is nice as well. But you can totally feel they’re trying to stretch out a story with not enough to it.
We spend much of the time on The Demeter which they could have capitalized on the claustrophobia of being stuck on a boat with a monster a bit more. It takes so long for anything to happen….
The story is…
