Grossout Edgelord Horrorcore Shit

So, as an outgrowth of the discussion in the Kuso thread, anyone here like to get down with the 'extreme cinema' genre, either for a laugh or seriously? I will occasionally throw one of these on to stay awake during a late night. The only one I've really felt inclined to rewatch more than once is Pasolini's Salo, presented in condensed form below.



So uh, any Takashi Miike fans in the house? Can anyone recite A Serbian Film line for line?

 

Does Urotsukidoji count? Or do we disregard it because it's anime?

Personally, I'd count it, since it's pretty much the granddaddy of hardcore edgy guro hentai as we know it today and the old English dubs from the early 90's had the grindhouse levels of "So Bad It's Good" dialogue. Plus, it has more plot than your average film in the same genre.

It fails at being fap material (unless you're Toshio Maeda or a serial killer in the making) but works great as snark material or just something to offend people you don't like.

 

Oh, anime definitely counts. And for what it's worth I don't know if it counts as anime, but some friends of mine and I are working our way up to a midnight viewing of Belladonna of Sadness. We just can't agree whether or not to go in sober.

 

I'm a fan of edgy shit. It is endlessly amusing to me. If you want extreme media that's edgy and has a good production value check out A Serbian Film. It's top kek.

 

Ah, Belladonna of Sadness, one of the earliest proto-hentai and proto-anime films in general, I ought to check it out some time.

Another hardcore extreme anime film is the 1992 film Midori, which was considered a lost film for many years and has a rather interesting production history.

 

This the one?


If so, I'm intrigued. It's going on tonight.

 

I think that's the one. I never actually got to see the film, but I would love to see it. Because the original was lost for so long, it is very rare to find and most of the extant copies in the United States are bootlegs. There is an official DVD of the full film, but it's only available in Europe from what I have gathered.

 

When I was young I though the police would burst into my house and arrest me if I watched A Serbian Film.

 

There are few, if any, films I despise more than the 1979 train wreck that is Caligula but it is often considered one of the "classics" of extreme cinema and some people find it to be "So bad, it's good", so I figure I'd mention it here.

As terrible as the movie was, the soundtrack was kind of cool, actually. I'm a sucker for disco music.

 

The gore isn't the worst part of this film, in fact i'd argue it's the best feature. Without it this would just be a dumb boring movie, but instead it's a complete mess and utterly hilarious if you've got a few beers in you.

This film is so awkward and weird, I'm not sure if the main character is supposed to be autistic, or if the actor just sucks.
Best moment- a girl gets squirted with skin melting goo, and for a few moments very obviously smears her face with ketchup before being replaced by a skinless dummy covered in shit.
Worse camera tilting and lens flare than the first Star Trek reboot, and plenty of unnecessary gore. The main character spends most of the film hidden behind a mask made out of his own skin, which seriously looks like a gag Nixon mask they bought from a joke shop.
I don't know why they chose to include so much on-screen gore when they clearly don't have the budget for convincing effects. If it was supposed to be ironic i'd get it, and maybe it is, but everything's so shitty and stupid that I can't even tell. There are plenty of low budget horrors that succeed by keeping the gore off-screen and letting the audience's imagination do the rest. This film's so stupid that it thinks that if it's didn't happen on-screen, it didn't happen at all.
I watched it on a date night once, sandwiched between ABCs of Death 1 and 2, which was maybe a poor idea given how... vaginal, those films are.

 

Some more anime OVA exploitation fare worth mentioning would be 1994's Genocyber and 1990's Mad Bull 34 (although the latter is somewhat tame compared to the previous works mentioned in this thread).

Hell, the OVA boom of the 80's and early 90's and the resulting campy dubs of the 90's (especially the ones done by Manga Entertainment and Central Park Media) were a lot like the anime equivalent of the grindhouse exploitation movement of the 70's and early 80's. Only instead of inner city grindhouse theaters, the main format was VHS. Still, you had sex and nudity, and lots of violence and gore. Oh, and gratuitous cursing if you were watching the dubbed version! My uncle had a lot of these VHS tapes when I was a kid, and I owned a few myself back then too.

I love this era of anime, and it makes me feel nostalgic for it, especially in this current era of waifus and moe shit.

 

Censorship on modern anime has definitely got more restrictive in recent years. It's hard for the heavier, gorier shows to be streamed to western audiences in their original form.

 

This is true, but also the fanbase has changed, especially in Japan. A lot of the moe shit shows are basically shameless otaku pandering fare. So less gorier fare is being made at all in general.

 

The book is actually 100X worse than the film (or pretty much any horror film ever made IMO).

That film bored me to death, the only part that remotely disturbed me was when you heard the moans of a baby that was being abused; other than that it felt almost more like a low-budget porn film and the acting and plot made no sense (example - guy learns the clients want him to make a child porn film, he leaves and drives off in a hurry, then just randomly runs into an attractive woman on the side of the road and starts making out with her - made no logical sense).

 

Tokyo Gore Police?

 

The Guinea Pig series is pretty nauseating, but the fourth one (Devil Woman Doctor) is just so over the top and slapstick that it's hilarious.

 

Violence Jack, both the Manga and the three OVAs. While all three are especially violent and controversial, the second, Evil Town, is definitely worth a watch if you want to see the series at its zenith of edginess and sheer violence. Let's just say that for a manga originally aimed at children (although after enough people in Japan complained it was marketed towards older age groups), Violence Jack doesn't shy away from some seriously dark themes.

If you're into animated violence in the same vein as Fist of The North Star, but are looking for something a bit more dark and with the gore turned up a notch, Violence Jack is for you.

 

Ichi the Killer is a kickass gorefest if anyone is curious, but the original manga is one of the few things I ever read that genuinely disturbed me from how sick it was. After watching Higurashi and Berserk, I'm still pretty surprised a Yakuza manga is what broke me.

Autist fact: Ichi the Killer is one of the inspirations for Jeff the Killer, particularly the main villain Kakihara

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