Take the plot basics of Kill Bill, Indonesian style action, Anime aesthetics and Japanese dark humor, mix them together and you'd think you'd get a damn solid piece of entertainment that could achieve true greatness if handled properly, right?
Well, this mess of a movie wasn't handled properly, so you get a few good scenes, some great masks and a whole lot of wasted potential.
The characters are never fleshed out and most don't even have a personality. The plot…
Not at all what I expected, but I have to give it credit for being a hell of a lot more fun than advertised. Pretty brilliantly executed genre mash-up of romantic comedy and slasher film that goes all in of both fronts.
Like Josh Rubens' other comedy horrors Werewolves Within and Scare Me, it's more comedy than horror, going over the top with every romantic comedy trope and cliche imaginable. It also goes full tilt with the gore and mayhem,…
You like black comedy? This is about the blackest, inkiest, coaldust covered, dripping with tar, soul crushing kind of blackness that a black comedy can be. Just go in completely blind and prepare to let the anxiety and disgust wash over you.
Not going to lie, silent films are rough for me except for a few. This is one of the few. Such beautiful God damned shot composition along with the choice to use all three color processes available at the time makes this just living art. It's the type of film that should inspire any film lover that watches it.
