Reading up about the BBFC deciding to ban the follow-up to the The Human Centipede (2009-also reviewed) (partly,due to them feeling that someone might try to do the operation in real life!) I started to notice people bringing up a film that "aunty" BBFC had recently banned,due to feeling that whilst all of the "outsiders" can watch it,the film is just a bit too risky to be brought out in the UK,due to there being a strong chance that it would give the little kiddies nightmares.
Wanting to find out what had been locked behind the door,I went on Amazon UK,and quickly found a Region 1,uncut DVD of the film for £5 ($10),which meant that I would thankfully have the chance to see something which will never see the light of day in the UK.
View on the film:
For the film only featuring three actors for the whole of its 75 minute running time,the cast impressively never make the characters that they are just going round in the same constant circles,with Tsugurmi Nagasawa and Hiroaki Kawatsure as the unlucky couple,giving the characters a good bit of depth,that really seems to be lacking in the script.
Along with giving the characters a bit of extra background,the two actors have to be highly praised for taking part in some extremely tense scenes,with beautiful actress Tsugumi stunningly barring all physically and emotionally to help build an intense atmosphere.
Reading the outline to director Koji Shiraishi's script,my initial through was that the film was going to be a Japanese take on Hostel 2.Instead,Koji goes in a slightly different direction,to create a great,nasty,short- sharp-shock of a movie.Although he does throw the idea of giving the characters some "background" overboard almost from the off,Shiraish shoots to the jugular do have a very good hit ratio,with the disturbing " invasion of privacy scene" being one of the few scenes this year which really caught me off-guard.
For the violence in the film,which got Aunty BBFC to go red face with anger,the scenes are (mostly) not as realistic as I had imagined,with all of the characters strangely showing not as much pain as was shown in Tom Six's crazy Grotesque- inspired film The Human Centiepede.
On the ending of the film,Koji goes very left-field with a fun "twist" at the end,which seems to have been taken from Lamberto Bava;s disappointing "ectoic Gothic-horror" Macabre ,Although,unlike that film,Koji executes the scene well,by having built up a great puddle of blood for the whole movie.
Final View on the film:
A film that does everything it sets out to do,which should one day be at last given the chance to be seen in the UK.
Wanting to find out what had been locked behind the door,I went on Amazon UK,and quickly found a Region 1,uncut DVD of the film for £5 ($10),which meant that I would thankfully have the chance to see something which will never see the light of day in the UK.
View on the film:
For the film only featuring three actors for the whole of its 75 minute running time,the cast impressively never make the characters that they are just going round in the same constant circles,with Tsugurmi Nagasawa and Hiroaki Kawatsure as the unlucky couple,giving the characters a good bit of depth,that really seems to be lacking in the script.
Along with giving the characters a bit of extra background,the two actors have to be highly praised for taking part in some extremely tense scenes,with beautiful actress Tsugumi stunningly barring all physically and emotionally to help build an intense atmosphere.
Reading the outline to director Koji Shiraishi's script,my initial through was that the film was going to be a Japanese take on Hostel 2.Instead,Koji goes in a slightly different direction,to create a great,nasty,short- sharp-shock of a movie.Although he does throw the idea of giving the characters some "background" overboard almost from the off,Shiraish shoots to the jugular do have a very good hit ratio,with the disturbing " invasion of privacy scene" being one of the few scenes this year which really caught me off-guard.
For the violence in the film,which got Aunty BBFC to go red face with anger,the scenes are (mostly) not as realistic as I had imagined,with all of the characters strangely showing not as much pain as was shown in Tom Six's crazy Grotesque- inspired film The Human Centiepede.
On the ending of the film,Koji goes very left-field with a fun "twist" at the end,which seems to have been taken from Lamberto Bava;s disappointing "ectoic Gothic-horror" Macabre ,Although,unlike that film,Koji executes the scene well,by having built up a great puddle of blood for the whole movie.
Final View on the film:
A film that does everything it sets out to do,which should one day be at last given the chance to be seen in the UK.