Woods Are Wet: Woman Hell (1973)
I've seen far more repulsive Roman Pornos, but there's something exceptionally unnerving about Woods Are Wet. Kumashiro mixes sex, death and sadism into the bleakest of tales. This is one Roman Porno I won't be forgetting in a hurry.
Absurd tongue torture in Japanese Hell
Jigoku is two unfinished films mashed awkwardly into one, and the results are as messy as you'd expect. The absurdity hits its peak towards the end of the film where we watch a bunch of evil assholes get tongue tortured.
Ridiculous death scene from Kazuo Umezu’s Death Make
Death Make is atrocious. It's awful. It's worse than atrocious and awful. It's a disaster in every aspect of its production. In a way, perhaps it is a success, because of its horribleness it has stuck in my mind more than any other entries in the Horror Theater series.
Killer… Koala?
One of the oddest movie viewings I’ve experienced in the last few years has been Minoru Kawasaki’s Executive Koala (2005). A surprisingly watchable (and supremely surreal) black comedy, Executive Koala is peppered with a madness that could only be delivered by the Japanese. Here’s a tiny taste of the silliness within…
