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Another great geyser of blood flick. Non stop. Watch this back to back with Tokyo Gore Police then eat a good meal. If successful, then you my friend, are my hero. ENJOY
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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I watched this one because I really liked Meatball Machine. But I really didn't love this one. It was a ton of crazy, but the story was weak as was most of everything else with this one. Good genre, bad movie.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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I can't really say this is really good, but I can't say it's awful either. However I can say that this is horribly kind of interesting. Twisted, and bloody to each and every second. Although it is kind of boring most the time. But all the different ways to make you sick and disturbed, and shocked to wtf they covered. This all seems on purpose; including the them in the middle of the movie...all of it is like this! It's worth seeing 1 time just for the shear creativity of horrible with a few cool ideas though. so I guess its ok because the director obviously put so much effort into making it horrible. It all seems to be done on purpose too. So does that mean they didn't want us to like this movie??? how could you really unless your some sorta sick and twisted person?
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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One line summary: The civil rights of zombies discussed during a national blood bath.
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An object from outer space strikes Hokkaido. This kicks up a cloud of ash which makes people fall to the ground, only to rise again in an hour as zombies.
A large wall was erected across Honshu north of Tokyo to keep the zombies out. Refugees flood Tokyo.
There's a banner: Protect the infected. Support human rights.
Unfortunately, the infected eat the uninfected, but the government does not care.
The zombies have an odd shaped horn; the only way to put a zombie down permanently in this film is to cut off this horn. Horns have psycho-active effects, so drug dealers collect them. The horns are volatile and explosive as well. This is all explained in a newscast/paid advertising TV session.
There is social dissension about the issue: the pro-zombie rights advocates versus the Japan is for the living advocates.
From the political to the gorefest: zombies with chain saws, heroes with bizarre weapons, strange eyes, spewing gore, sudden costume changes. That's in the first 30 minutes.
Kika meets Taku and No-name, the last of the members of the Kamikaze Orphanage. Taku and No-name hunt for zombie horns, and the money is getting bad.
Amazingly, there is formal public debate about whether or not to exterminate the zombies before they exterminate the living. The zombies eventually settle the debate by eating the prime minister.
The opening credits start at 49 minutes into the film. Clever.
After the credits, death row inmates are given a chance at having their sentences dropped. They are to find the woman who is the source of the zombie infestation and kill/destroy/whatever her.
Kika is the daughter of the zombie queen, so Kika might be able to help locate her. They meet a skilled hunter in zombie country who helps them evade the flying heads.
There's an effort to rescue No-name's sister Maya, who's been captured and sold at the zombie bar. Lots of fighting, lots of blood, but this is not the ultimate battleground.
How might this turn out? Will any of our heroes survive? Will they get the zombie queen? Will the help promised by the Tokyo regime actually arrive?
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Cinematography: 2/10 Ugly, badly done. Poor colour, shaky camera, and so on.
Sound: 4/10 Out of sync, voice to speech. Bizarre choices for incidental music. Subtitles for the jaunty, pleasant singing would have been nice. Even more ridiculous choices of Western classical music.
Acting: 0/10 I did not recognise any acting in this one. There were many people in the film who were on camera for under 30 seconds, and had few if any lines.
Screenplay: 0/10 The timeline is dicey, the characters are not developed in a coherent way, the visuals are poor, and the effect of the thing from outer space on Kika never made sense to me. The flashbacks are not well organised. Incredibly stupid armour, incredibly stupid mustache, ridiculous amount and presentation of blood splatter, flying heads as ammunition, heads flying with no physical reason for their movement, a stolen heart used as a voodoo instrument, and some of the stupidest fights I have ever seen. These were all part of the nonsense of the screenplay. Enough continuity errors to torpedo a hundred films that had any reasonable governance.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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Yeah, it's pretty messed up...but that's why it's fun to watch!
You can read my review at...
http://revronmovies.blogspot.com/2013/06/helldriver.html
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Aivan sekopäistä menoa. Täytyy varmaan olla japanilainen ymmärtääkseen tästä jotain.
Rated 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/12/23
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