The producers get an A for effort for this one. I wasn't expecting much when I started watching, and I wasn't even really paying attention to the subtitles for a while as I thought this was pretty run of the mill. But then the weirdness gets ratcheted and some supreme body horror comes into play.
Being a big fan of, well, gore, and body horror, I was digging this movie after about 30 minutes. It didn't grab me right away, but I'm glad I stuck with it. For the price of admission, you get some pretty good stuff. Some of the important scenes could have been better with a bigger budget, but even the ideas they had were great, if the execution occasionally lacked.
Seriously, when was the last time you saw a girl get ripped in half by a Mac-10, only to have a crocodile mouth grow out of her lower torso, compete with a gnarly vagina waiting at the end of that gruesome gullet? Or a the bigger payoff---a quadruple amputee bondage slave girl(for some reason referred to as He) who was 4 samurai swords for limbs? Some trick shooting and CGI kept that scene from being totally wasted, and it's one of the highlights of the movie.
And, for the squeamish, be warned. There is a pretty graphic groin-biting scene. Again, we have some Japanese bleeder that ignores how the body really works, even beyond showers of blood. But that's sort of the point here: the plot revolves around genetically modified killers who can grow monstrous new limbs fighting a corrupt privatized police force with a hot little mama wielding a sword against both factions.
I was pleasantly surprised for a change that not only does the title say it all, but the film actually lives up to the name. Gorier and better produced than The Machine Girl, but you should probably knock both of these out together over beer and pizza. There are worse ways to kill a weekend and brain cells.
Being a big fan of, well, gore, and body horror, I was digging this movie after about 30 minutes. It didn't grab me right away, but I'm glad I stuck with it. For the price of admission, you get some pretty good stuff. Some of the important scenes could have been better with a bigger budget, but even the ideas they had were great, if the execution occasionally lacked.
Seriously, when was the last time you saw a girl get ripped in half by a Mac-10, only to have a crocodile mouth grow out of her lower torso, compete with a gnarly vagina waiting at the end of that gruesome gullet? Or a the bigger payoff---a quadruple amputee bondage slave girl(for some reason referred to as He) who was 4 samurai swords for limbs? Some trick shooting and CGI kept that scene from being totally wasted, and it's one of the highlights of the movie.
And, for the squeamish, be warned. There is a pretty graphic groin-biting scene. Again, we have some Japanese bleeder that ignores how the body really works, even beyond showers of blood. But that's sort of the point here: the plot revolves around genetically modified killers who can grow monstrous new limbs fighting a corrupt privatized police force with a hot little mama wielding a sword against both factions.
I was pleasantly surprised for a change that not only does the title say it all, but the film actually lives up to the name. Gorier and better produced than The Machine Girl, but you should probably knock both of these out together over beer and pizza. There are worse ways to kill a weekend and brain cells.