SYNOPSIS: While marketed as a sequel to Shogun’s Sadism: The Joys of Torture, The Joys of Torture 2 is neither directed by Teruo Ishii and does not seem to be an official sequel. However it is set, as is the former, during the Japanese Edo era and takes its inspiration from the horrific and grotesque forms of torture used during …
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Film Review: Intruder (1997) – CAT III
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Yieh Siu Yan is a deranged women wanted by the authorities of Taiwan. She will steal the identity of a lonely young woman to get back to Hong Kong. After that, she successfully passes every custom point and decides to become a hooker to kidnap a lonely guy to complete his enigmatic evil plan. The victim …
Read More »Film Review: Beautiful Girl Hunter (1979) – CAT III
Rate This Movie (aka Star of David: Beauty Hunting) SYNOPSIS: NA REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER (1979) Director: Norifumi Suzuki Producer: Yoshio Murai & Yoshihiro Yuhki Writers: Masaaki Sato & Jiku Yamatoya Actors: Yuka Asagiri * Yuko Asuka * Shu Domon * Hiromi Namino * Hiroshi Nawa * Asami Ogawa * Rei Okamoto Every movie begins with the potential that you …
Read More »Film Review: In The Realm of the Senses (1976)
SYNOPSIS: In The Realm of the Senses is based upon a real-life incident which took place in Japan on 17th May 1936. This incident was the particularly gruesome murder of Kichizo Ishida by his lover, Abe Sada: after having choked Ishida to death, Sada cut off his penis and carried it around with her until she was caught two days …
Read More »Film Review: Fairy in a Cage (1977)
SYNOPSIS: During World War II, the tyrannical Judge Murayama uses his military power to imprison and torture innocent people. Suspected of helping an anti-government movement, the lovely Namiji Kikushima is captured, along with a local kabuki actor. Helpless and unable to escape, the two are subjected to a grueling series of tortures including rope bondage and physical assault. As the …
Read More »Film Review: A Chinese Torture Chamber 2 (1998) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: A ruthless governor with a girl’s name turns against his former friends after his lust for pretty young Lotus takes a turn for the more sinister. Now in a position of great power, he has the lot of them violently tortured and brutalised. With power, said a great man (I believe it was Uncle Ben, the rice salesman) comes …
Read More »Film Review: 3 Extremes II (2002)
SYNOPSIS: Three Extremes is an omnibus of three tales of the supernatural from South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Memories by Kim Jee-woon concerns a domestic haunting in which a wife attempts to find her way home, not realising that she is in fact dead, while her husband struggles to remember why his wife has suddenly disappeared. Nonzee Nimibutr’s The Wheel …
Read More »Film Review: The Joy of Torture (1968) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Set in the Tokugawa (or Edo) period, the first in Teruo Ishii’s Joys of Torture series opens with a montage portraying a succession of women being decapitated, burnt alive at the stake and torn in two by oxen. The film then adopts a portmanteau approach of three short stories which all culminate in lengthy torture sessions REVIEW: Director Teruo …
Read More »Film Review: The Beauty’s Evil Rose (1992) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: The Beauty’s Evil Rose is a great title, but rather misleading – The Beauty’s Evil Parasitic Penis-monster would have been more apt, as the plot – such as it is – involves a Satanic female cult who seek to take vengeance on men, for perceived and/or real wrongs, using a parasite which is transmits deadly poison through sexual contact. …
Read More »Film Review: Brother of Darkness (1994) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Brother of Darkness begins with a young man, Toh (Hugo Ng Doi-Yung) on trial for the brutal murder of his brother, Wah (William Ho Ka-Kui). As the court case unfolds and witnesses take the stand, a horrific tale of sibling abuse, domestic violence and all-round thugary ensues. We discover that Toh was subject to frequent attacks by Wah whenever …
Read More »Film Review: Men Behind the Sun (1988) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Men Behind the Sun is a fictionalised account of war atrocities perpetrated against Chinese and Russian people by the Japanese during World War 2. Unit 731 is a secret facility which conducts biological and other medical experiments on both animals and humans. The film focuses on the experiences of the last youth corps to join Unit 731 before it …
Read More »Film Review: Terrible Meal (1995) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Food Fetish Vomiting and Hardcore exchange REVIEW: Tracking this movie down has been somewhat of a challenge. Though in that same statement, it is probably for the better as far as most are concerned. This film goes beyond the CAT III boundaries by jumping straight into some truly sick perverse hard to watch material. If you have read our …
Read More »Film Review: Red to Kill (Yeuk saat) (1994) – CAT III
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic rapist, who attacks women that wear red, runs a home for retarded children and rapes a girl there who he sees wearing a red dress, leading to a revenge plot by the girl’s social worker REVIEW: Written by: Wong- Ho- Wah Directed by: Billy Tang Hin-Sing Starring: Lily Chung Suk-Wai, Ben NG Ngai- Cheung, …
Read More »Film Review: Squirmfest (aka “Purge”) (1989) – CAT III
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: She starts out by eating a dish of noodles and worms before moving on to playing the piano. Once she starts playing, she gets a nice enema and squirts it all over the floor. She is then forced to eat it!!! But it gets worse…Lots of other enema stuff before the grand finale in which she …
Read More »Film Review: A Day Without Policemen (Mou jing shi fen) (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Simon Yam plays a former big city cop who had a very bad experince with an AK-47. So he’s been assigned duty on one of the Hong Kong Islands as a police chief of a small village. He spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking hash while daydreaming. But when a group of thugs armed with AK-47’s …
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