What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Batgirl0202]

7/10

 

[squeekness]

Joker : Folie a deux ( not too bad if you fast forward through the songs).

 

[emielaen]

The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

Red Son (2020)

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Guts of a Beautiful Woman (AKA Entrails of a Beautiful Woman ~ 1986)

The second part of director Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu's 'Guts Trilogy'. A young woman looking for her missing sister is kidnapped, drugged, and raped by a Yakuza gang. She discovers that her sister suffered the same fate before being taken to Africa and sold into slavery. The young woman escapes and manages to reach a clinic where she tells a nurse everything that happened. Then, with the drug still in her system, she runs to the clinic roof and jumps, killing herself. The nurse decides that she will seek revenge on the Yakuza gang responsible for the girl's rape and death. Unfortunately, her plan backfires, and she herself is captured, forcibly drugged, and raped. However, the gang overdo the drug dosage and the nurse dies - only to be resurrected as a hermaphrodite, inside-out, zombie/corpse, who promptly seeks revenge on all responsible for her own rape and murder.

If the first movie (Guts of a Virgin/Entrails of a Virgin) was Gaira's attempt at a 'cabin in the woods' type slasher, this is his take on the 'rape-revenge' genre. The sex/nudity is dialled back a little from the first film, but it's still pretty heavy. The gore, though, is amped up. Gaira obviously had a bigger budget this time around, and the prosthetics/splatter work is consistently pretty good. He even manages to work in a homage to the Alien chest-burster. The performances are still cartoonish, with inept Yakuza gang members serving as light-relief (these guys are definitely more Sopranos-style henchmen than Godfather), and as with the first film we have to wait too long before the blood 'n' guts start flying around, but it's well-shot, and overall is a slight improvement. 5.5/10

 

[Link]

Doing some sequels and spin-offs. Very enjoyable, all of them. I honestly wasn't expecting 28 Weeks Later to be particularly good, mostly because the original creative team wasn't involved, but it really works. Such a tense film.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

The second one is Yakuza Graveyard.

 

[Frodo]

 

[Rozen Thorne]