A talk show host investigates a remote locale where a snuff film might have happened. Smart, right?
This 1988 flick stars Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, and Hitomi Kobayashi. It was written by Takashi Ishii. Toshiharu Ikeda was the Director.
Here’s the deal.
There’s this reporter who runs a late, late night show. She gets all sorts of weird videos for the show and among them is what looks like a snuff film. Ignoring the cautionary tale known as Videodrome she decides to investigate. Using clues in the video she takes her team out to a remote locale she thinks it happened in to see if this was a real thing. And thus gets her team and herself into a situation they don’t understand.
Hell, I watched it, and I don’t understand it.
Not going into specifics, her team dies in a bunch of horrible ways that aren’t consistant. One gets impaled with spikes pushed through a wall into her. Another is set up into a death trap guarenteed for the reporter being the cause. So on and so forth.
The worse happens to the most terrified of the girls. Not only does she get raped in a very unpleasant scene, she killed right after.
None of these victims have a chance to escape, or saved, or anything. It’s brutal and nasty. And when the male characters die, they do so either quick or offscreen.
All this, it should be said, happens a little before midpoint in the movie.
The flick is effective. You give a damn about the characters. I will cop to liking it through watching it.
Then the end comes. Without going into too much detail, it’s ridiculous and unnecessary. Worse, it makes it so the bad guy wins.
Thus Cullen’s Little Horror Rule comes into play.
In the end, the flick made me want to check out the sequel, see if it improves or falls down in the same way. It no doubt says terrible things about my taste in films.
We’re NOT RECOMMENDING this one.
Not Recommended
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