Release Date: Jan 1, 1988 Wide
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Toshiharu Ikeda directed this provocative horror film which spawned two sequels. Miyuki Ono stars as Nami, a talk-show hostess who receives a grotesque snuff video in the mail. She is outraged as she sees a young woman horribly murdered on the tape, complete with a truly foul sequence in which a blade is graphically plunged into the victim's eyeball. With her crew, Nami decides to track down the killer, leading her to an abandoned factory where her crew is repulsively slaughtered one by one. The
Jan 1, 1988 Wide
Nov 7, 2000
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The first hour has a grim and gritty anti-charm that's quite devilishly entertaining. And then the wheels kinda come off.
Quite simply one of the best genre films to come out of Japan
Gory fun! It's anime done live.
June 6, 2007
Super Reviewer
I've had quite the time with this one. When I first saw this I hated it ("This is nothing like Evil Dead!") but I keep returning to it like an abused spouse. Now, I quite like it. A lot actually. It's a bizarre film that rarely makes logical sense, but if you let yourself get into it, it can be a hell of a lot of
September 11, 2008Super Reviewer
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