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“It’s Alive!” in Japan

June 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Leave it to Yûdai Yamaguchi, director of such cult craziness as Battlefield Baseball, Cromartie High: The Movie, and Meatball Machine (read Morbid’s review here), to realize that J-horror is quickly growing stale and direct one that appears to be completely tongue-in-cheek. Based on the manga “Akanbo Shoujo” from horror legend Kazuo Umezu (whose work Yamaguchi [...]

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Tags: Adaptation · Foreign · Horror Movie · Japanese · Monster · Supernatural

Meatball Machine (2005)

June 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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Meatball Machine is a Sci-Fi, Horror, Love story from Yûdai Yamaguchi and Jun’ichi Yamamoto. It is a hyper-splattery film involving intelligent parasites from an unknown origin in space, who use human bodies as their own personal battle stations, turning them into a bio-mechanical mess called Necroborgs. These parasites travel in small pods [...]

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Tags: Action · Extreme Gore · Foreign · Horror Movie · Japanese · Review