Red to Kill (1994)

What do you get when you have a exploitation rape revenge flick made by the wonderful filmmakers in Hong Kong. You get a class A Cat III flick. Being that this movie is Chinese and not Japanese, we get uncensorsed nudity too. Not sure how much of the nudity you'd actually WANT to see in this movie, but for all intents and purposes, this is a fantastic sleazy affair.

Meet our rapist, Mr Chan.



Played wonderfully by Ben Ng, you will never see a rapist as energetic and crazy as this guy. If you have to pick a reason to watch this movie, watch it for him. This guy makes Le Tenia cower in fear. He basically looks like a Chinese version of the Hulk. The thing that sets him off as a buldging, shaking, adrenline pumped sex addict, is the colour red. Apparently he was traumatised as a kid when he saw his mother murdered in a bloody fashion. Now the colour red turns him into a raping and killing fiend. You wanna know the most fucked up part fo this plot. Guess where our rapist/murderer works?
A home for mentally handicapped children. I wonder how long an american remake will come along?;)

Notice how I used red to highlight that above point? Smooth huh;)

Anyway, meet our main protagonist Ming Ming. An innocent child orphaned and placed in this home. Little Ming Ming is the sweetest character, you really want her to be okay. And watching over her is her social worker, Mrs Lok. But how long before someone wears red and sets our hulking rapist off into a trance?

Okay this movie is all sorts of fucked up. It's a exploitation rape revenge centered around disabled kids for goodness sake. And there is a copy containing the most dodgy subs ever heard of in the history of filmmaking, apparently. Not the copy I have, but I have heard many tales of the "Sex Lupine".

Despite its subject matter and brutality, it's actually a really well made film. Very artistic and emotional in scenes. Lovers of cinema should find some appreciation for it at least, but of course those who love exploitaion will adore it too. The final confrontation involving Mr Chan is a sight to behold. Gorehounds rejoice!

It's hard recommending a movie like this, but I'm going to do it anyway. Watch this movie. And if you get a hold of the dodgy subs version, you'll be pissing yourself laughing all the way.



And yay, wouldn't ya believe it, it's on youtube! Not sure if this copy is the dodgy subs one or not, but check it our regardless. The dodgy subs copy is bound to get some extra laughs thrown in.



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111037/reference

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Takashi Miike Appreciation Thread!



Fan's of the extreme and macabre would no doubt know this man's name. You might even recognize his face from Eli Roth's Hostel which was totally disappointing (well not really, but yeah kinda, anyone else expecting something more extreme from Hostel?....Anyone?.... ANYONE????!!!). But I do love the visual reference, having Takashi Miike attached to any project will no doubt spring interest!

The purpose of this thread is simply to glorify some of my favourite movies from this guy. I am no expert on Miike, I mean the man has directed nearly 100 movies and I've seen maybe just over a handful! So please feel free to add any thoughts, reviews etc you have on Miike to this thread. All opinions are most welcomed!
I suppose I should start with my first introduction to Miike, and that's with Audition.



We watch a widowed man hold a fake audition, looking for the right girl who he could fall in love with. Audition often makes the lists when discussing the most disturbing movies. I wouldn't say it's the most disturbing I've seen, but it does get extremely unsettling. Miike has gone on record saying he purposefully made the movie painfully slow so when the ending comes, it hits so deeply. It worked wonders for me, but to be honest, I wasn't bored at all during this movie. I forgot I was watching a horror movie and was just so engrossed with the characters, I mean the main protagonist is the nicest guy! I just wanted him to find someone to love and live happily ever after!
Though this movie has a whole different agenda planned. The age old story of boy meets girl, boys loses girl, boy gets girl has such perverted twist to it. The movie progressively gets darker and darker. The last third have some genuinely chilling moments, including one scene where method actress Eihi Shiina vomits into a bowel and feeds it to a terrible mutilated individual. Yes you read that correctly, look it up!!!
By the time we get to the climax of the film, I do believe the term '˜cringeworthy' can be applied as we watch a man that we all kinda like and feel bad for, have the most dreadful things done to his body. I do love the irony that the femme fatale inflicting such brutal pain, is using the most delicate weapons, that's just a nice touch!



When Audition ended, I immediately jumped straight onto imdb to find out what else the director had made that I would be interested in watching. Truly, I was onto something very special!
I spent the next several years trying to track down Ichi the Killer because Australia sucked majorly and didn't have any in stock until like two years ago. So settled for what I could find and ended up with a copy of his entry to the Masters of Horror series, Imprint!



A man who is searching for his long lost love, finds a friend of hers who knows what happened to her. But naturally, her story is far more devious than it seems.
You know what I loved about the advertising of this? The fact that this one was banned from cable TV due to its extreme content. When I hear stuff like that, I get giddy like a school girl. I was confident I was about to watch something truly excruciating. And I was right!
You guys ever had to stop a movie because it was so crineworthy? I have more than a few times, and this is one of them. Holy Hell! If you though the needles in Audition were bad, this one is upped up a notch! Cringeworthy doesn't even begin to describe it.



Because Imprint is only 63 mins long, it gets straight to the point. No hour build up, nope, we get straight into tragic love story and straight into the horror, though it does still up an interesting build up and a very interesting climax.
On top of the brutal torture, we also have some very eyebrow raising taboos, I might want to add that pro life peeps should stay away from this one, Miike is not for you. 😉
The only thing I probably needed to add is I kinda wished it was in Japanese with Eng subs. The main actress spoke English very well, but most of the cast... I am pretty sure they didn't have a clue what they were saying.... And they STILL acted better than Billy Drago. Poor Drago, your acting sucked on Charmed and it sucked here too! But we still love ya!
Hooking and entertaining, it maybe a little silly, but this one is sure to delight fans of extreme horror fanatics alike.

Okay, still looking for Ichi the Killer.... Still looking, still looking, (fucking Australia) still looking, but then hooray, another Miike film! One Missed Call!



It's at this point that I realised how versatile Miike is, this one isn't extreme, it's your standard Japanese horror movie!
Kids start getting mysterious phones calls from what appears to be themselves just as they die horrific deaths.
I really liked the story of this, very fascinating idea and an interesting little take on the ghost theme. Though I did find it unfortunately pretty average. While I liked the movie, there was nothing too exceptional about it, and to be honest, I don't really remember it too well. But, I did remember liking it for what it was, and it must have made some impact, cos naturally, they remade it.
One thing I have to point out about this movie is it's got Mitsuko from Battle Royale in it! So... it gets like 10 extra points right there!!! [dance]



It also had a very catchy ringtone, which was the ringtone of death!
Unfortunately, I don't remember much more to say about it, so I'll gracefully move on to my favourite Miike film.
Australia no longer sucks, Ichi the Killer is now available!



The build up to an epic showdown between the ultimate sadist and the ultimate masochist. Without a doubt, one of the most entertaining, awesome, sick, depraved and just flat out amazing films ever! And I gotta say, that story is beautiful! I mean, the ultimate sadist and masochist! That's like a love story! Just a very twisited and perverted love story. 😄
And extreme! This one is majorly extreme! Lots of violence, gore, sadism etc. The opening title comes up from a pile of sperm for goodness sake (eww). But it's so outrageously over the top, it also hilarious! You laugh, you'll cringe, you'll go ewwwwwww and you'll have a ball! Ichi the Killer is pure disturbing insanity and I loved every bit of it!
Major shout out goes to the real star of the movie, Kakihara! I mean just look at him! Iconic is the word that springs to mind for me. Truly epic performance and such a memorable character. Bravo! [clap]



I should wrap this up before I really bore you guys, so I will leave you with yet another eye brow raising experience and that is the ever notorious Visitor Q. No use waiting for that one on DVD here, twas a futile exercise so I •ahem• obtained it another way. What? Don't look at me like that, don't you judge me!



So, what's it about? A man hit anothers in the head, and then comes to live at their house and observe their family. Okay! Let's see what we can gain from Visitor Q. Hmmm, well, daughter has sex with her own father? Check. Son abusing his mother? Check. Mother lactating breast milk? Check. Father raping dead chick? Check. Father getting stuck in said dead chick during? Oh good lord what the bloody hell am I watching here?! And why am I laughing?!!! This isn't funny is it?! Well, it kinda is, but so very very VERY sick. I have no bloody idea how Miike comes up with this shit, but good lord this shit is insane!



I never thought it was possible to find a movie more insane then Ichi the Killer, though since this one has a documentary vibe to it, it feels so much dirtier. That and there's incest and weird shit going down. I mean really weird shit! Damn! Whether you love Miike or hate him, you gotta admit, this guy is insane! Heh, I guess that's why I do love him! 😉

I wanted to get into a few more Miike films, but I reckon that's enough for now. Till then, thankyou for reading!

#Extreme #Japanese #Miike

Taboo Territory. Adults only.

Warning, the following discussions may be deemed offensive and disgusting to almost all people. Proceed at your own risk.

I love warnings like that. If anything, it makes me wanna check it out moreso. I'm not entirely sure if I'm allowed to post this here, but if our grand director disapproves, please feel free to delete it. I'm merely posting this as a entrepreneur of the sick and twisted, the disgusting and underground. This is the extreme thread for extreme things. If you come across anything that churns your stomach or keeps you up at night, this is the thread for it. Just be sure to have a gag bucket here with you. 😉
Just one thing before we begin, please avoid posting anything that could be deemed illegal. None of us wanna get arrested 😉

But why have such a thread?

Cos the most nasty and messed up concepts are the ones that are the most inetersting. Just because you're watching a horror movie doesn't make you a serial killer. And just because you're reading up on depraved taboos doesn't make you a degenate (it only makes you more interesting). Our sick curiosities enjoy seeing the dark side of humanity at it's lowest. And humanity doesn't get much darker than delving into the forbidden fetishes of pyschos. One particulaly nasty festish, Necrophilia. To love a corpse. Yikes!

I remember thinking that it wasn't possible to commit an act more disgusting than necrophilia. But I hadn't learned what "munging" was at the time.

munging
1) Go to a graveyard with four of your buddies
2) Dig up Fresh corpse (female) and have a gang bang.
3) Afterwards, one of them puts there mouth over the vagina.
4) Someone jumps on the stomach, shooting all the cum and maggots and such into the person's mouth. They swallow it.
"I sure did love munging the Thompson's Daughter last week."

Yeah....

There's some great flicks that deal with necrophilia, like Necromantik 1 and 2, Quills, August Underground Mordum, Angst, Aftermath and Visitor Q



As disgusting and vile as the concept is, Visitor Q actually put a spin on things and made Necrophilia kinda funny. Yes you read that right. Visitor Q made many taboo things funny, but the cake went to watching the father of a family try and rape a co worker, accidentally kill her, yet continue to rape her, all the while getting...well...stuck...
What can I say, rigor mortis is a bitch! :D
How he gets unstuck? Well he gets his herion junkie wife to shoot him up. This loosens him up with a louding "popping" sound. That's comedic gold right there!



Director of Visitor Q is Takashi Miike, and he could have a whole thread dedicated to the messed up stuff he's made, but think VQ might just be his most tongue in cheek. But I digress. Lets get back to corpse fvcking.

For some interesting reading on the subject, check out Matthew Stokoes High Life, a tale of perversion and depravity, and starring a necrophile as our very own protagonist. Might be one of the most disgusting books you'll ever read. So naturally it's highly recommended. Though don't do what I did and try and read it while travelling on a public train to uni/work. You'll never stop anxiously checking to make sure no one is reading over your shoulder. Trust me, you don't wanna be caught out as "that guy". Not when it comes to this dirty stuff.

I have to say, it must be an unpleasant experience, to root a dead bloke/chick. They'd be all cold and...dead. Not all fiction portarys it in a safe way. In Nekromantik, they're decomposed, all slimey and rotting. Urgh, makes me wanna puke just thinking about it. But it does have one bloody climax. (teehee)
Still, let it never be said that such a thing is only the imagination of degenerates, serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen have been reported to have engaged in such an abhorrant activity.



Well, I think that's all I can say about necrophilia. Sorry for any typos and sorry for grossing anyone out.

Cheers.

#Extreme #Taboo