[2002]
Also known as Suicide Club
I've been wanting to see this for ages but back when I was a teenager it was very hard to find online and my skills of search wasn't as good as it is now and late last night and today I watched it and I loved... the first half. The second half went on CRAZY JAPANESE OBSCURE HUMOUR bend.
It's a typical low budget movie from Japan which isn't bad, movies don't need to be gushing cgi and fancy ass effects as long as the story is good and the acting convincing. I mean come on! The Ring was a fantastic horror and it was just a woman in a white dress and long hair, point made Japan.
So we start our movie with lots of school girls from many different schools going to the train station and lining up, they all hold hands and the most cheerful music you could ever imagine comes on as these girls see a train coming and then jump.
And the crew armed with buckets of tomato juice just chuck it all over the place! buckets of really bad fake looking blood all over the windows, people, the station runs red with the blood of fruit!
So nice action so far minus the very laughable blood but hey tomato's gotta be cheaper then red paint or food dye right?
So after 54 girls kill themselves we are taken to the hospital where two very pretty nurses are sat chatting about going to get lunch late at night and damn are Japanese nurse outfits hot. So one goes off to get grub leaving her friend to worry why it's taking her so long...
Nurse who staid gets worried and calls the security guard and no one knows whats taking the other nurse so long so soon the guard hears nothing from either of them for awhile and heads up to the staff room where he is greeted with no sign of the other nurse just a wide open window, darkness and hand prints on the window pane.. he's abit slow if he didn't think that was abit odd..
The missing nurse comes back and starts to act really odd.. she looks brain washed and casually opens the window and without a second thought announces 'Well, see ya later' and leaps out the window to her death. Just an average day!
Also a bloody bag shows up on the scene of the crime which the police take away.
'Smells like that time of the month!'
So the cops are trying to sus out why so many girls killed themselves is is a cult? is it a crime? or supernatural? oooooh! So we have taken the bloody bag to forensics and we are told that in the bag is a reel of human skin.. that looks alot like really bad cheap value ham sewn together..
I wounder what their budget of ham and tomato's was for the effects of this movie? I think some jam may have been included.
Soon they get a call from a woman who seems to be on to something and he code name is 'The Bat' she informs them there is a website that is keeping track of all the suicides.. but before they happen! white dots mean men and red dots mean woman and of course there are alot more red dots.
So back to forensics who are still trying to piece things together and one man shows us his table of mangled school girl corpses, it looks like something in a really bad art installation..
Our main cop goes home and he has such a nice family unit, a son, daughter and a wife who all seem very happy. They all watch what Japan calls 'idol' bands which the western world calls annoying girl bands.. and god is this idol band annoying and god are they EVERYWHERE.
The idol bit is important for later so you just have to deal with buckets of fucking annoying preteens singing ear killing high pitched J-pop.
Back at a high school where there are mixed feelings on the suicide cult rumours, some aren't fans and some joke about it like it's nothing. A few guys are like LOL LETS KILL OURSELVES WON'T IT BE COOL!!!! and thanks to per pressure there is a cry of YES! LETS DO IT!
One girl rushes to the roofs edge and soon everyone wants in on the action and they all hold hands on the roof and there is a count down while on lookers watch not thinking they'd do it. Soon they all jump and those buckets of tomato juice come back in force.
See back when I was a kid pokemon was all the rage... and pogs. Clearly we were not as hard core as these students.
We soon see that three people wussed out and to not wanna look lame in front of people, go through with it also.. well the guy doesn't want to then a girl decides to take him with her. So is that classed as a suicide, murder or assisted suicide? hmm
The next scene I honestly could not help but laugh at as sick as that might sound but the suicides aren't limited to young school girls and a few boys but adults too. A woman is happily passing and a guy falls on top of her trying to kill himself! The irony was it was her boyfriend, she's more pissed about him hurting her then him trying to kill himself... I see they had an awesome relationship.
The cops by now have clocked on to the connection of the website, the sewn together ham skin and the suicides.. and realise there is a cult out there doing all this and they need to get behind it asap but will not yet class it as a murder case.
They soon get another lead that there will be another large suicide and told where to go, they see a large group of school girls and freak out! but they had nothing to worry about they only pretended to jump and things go uneventfully for our cops.
With the cult becoming such a big thing fully grown woman start to walk around with signs telling people to jump, trying to convince anyone who's bad to kill themselves and all that sort of cult-y thing.
We see a selection of people trying to kill themselves in different ways as really happy music plays in the background again.. and this is the turning point in the movie that takes us from a very good murder mystery sort of set up to a 'wtf am I watching' experience as we see a woman cutting her own hand up with no signs of pain.
Our main cop goes home and shit goes wrong for him. His girl is stood there soaked in blood and grinning like a loon but he fails to notice until he stands up and sees bloody foot prints everywhere. Damn kids and their messes -shakes fist-
It seems his happy family unit wasn't so happy and have killed themselves.. remember it's the cool thing to do these days, everyones doing it! The strange woman calls up the cop once more and gives aload of crap to him and it was clearly not to his liking as he blows his own brains out.
At the same time 'The Bat' and her sister get kidnapped by some really scruffy looking too late for punk rock scene group of guys and dragged away in bedsheets to a disused bowling ally.
Now comes the part of the movie that really throws the plot into the ditch and pisses on it. The main guy of the camp boy band suicide club starts singing to 'The Bat' and her sister while one of their group rapes and kills a woman..
I can see Japanese rocky horror picture show in this group...
So they kill 'The Bat's sister and get her to tell the cops where they are, he decides it's time they get arrested so their names will go down in history but even after they have been brought in by the cops the rash of suicides keep happening even with them behind bars.
This is where our lady who got jumped on comes back into the story, she's visiting her boyfriends place or back home can't remember and has that awful idol groups posters everywhere and she soon sees a message in the poster.. not long after she figures out the idol group are up to something she gets a phone call and given information.
She goes to the concert of the god awful idol groups concert and manages to get back stage where loads of kids are giving it the old cult mumbo jumbo but she ignores it and goes to the stage where more kids spouting even more crap are there giving her a round of applause.. by this point I am pretty lost in the movie.. I won't lie I watched the rest of it with a raised eyebrow and a 'the fuck?' look plastered on my face.
Next we see is a giant box full of woman and rats running around on the floor. Creepy kids are all watching on as a man cuts skin off of the woman to add to the sewn together skin roll and then we cut to a man who's hung himself with Christmas lights.... arg what is this.
The end of the movie is pretty much the idol group giving their last performance... the movie just kinda ends.. nothing real is given away about what happened but if you watch carefully through the movie you notice alot of things that build up to the end.
So.. the first half of the movie would get a 5/5 but thanks to the second half... well.
Gore: 1/5 [though laughable as anything]
Acting: 3/5
Story: 4/5 [first half] 1/5 [last half]
Over all enjoyment: 3/5
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