[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Trust me, I have a very high tolerance for messed up. This movie takes the cake, I can't believe it is even legal in the west. It is obviously ****ed up for the sake of being ****ed up but still. YUCK. The over the top grossness is sorta funny though.

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/visitorq.shtml

Most of you will probably end up turning it off 50% of the way through.

If you are saying that movies such as Kids, Julien Donkey-Boy and Gummo are messed up, well... you ain't seen nothin' yet.

[Mafia]

audition was one of the single most disturbing films i've ever seen. kids wasn't really visually disturbing, it was more mentally disturbing. ichi the killer is also really gross (although it is a great movie, if you can get past the nastyness).

edit: after reading your post better, i also recommend watching ichi the killer it has some pretty ironic humor with the violence. it really turned me on to korean cinema but ugh it is gross for the weak stomached.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Mafia:
audition was one of the single most disturbing films i've ever seen

Big surprise that it is from the same director.

[Mafia]

ya no suprise at all. never seen visitor q all the way through. if your up for a challenge check out audition.

[badidea]

Sounds great - now I only have to find out where to get that movie...

[brutal]

I think I'll pass. Incest is not really one of my favourite moviethemes.

[mitchell_pgh]

Obviously none of you have seen Gigli

[badidea]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Obviously none of you have seen Gigli

I'd rather "watch" a broken TV screen for 2 hours than a movie with Baffleck and J-Lo...

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Trust me, I have a very high tolerance for messed up. This movie takes the cake, I can't believe it is even legal in the west. It is obviously ****ed up for the sake of being ****ed up but still. YUCK. The over the top grossness is sorta funny though.

So you liked it then?

Originally posted by Mafia:
audition was one of the single most disturbing films i've ever seen. kids wasn't really visually disturbing, it was more mentally disturbing.

Yeah, but it was horror movie kinda disturbing. Visitor Q is just whacked.

ichi the killer is also really gross (although it is a great movie, if you can get past the nastyness).

I haven't seen it yet. Looking forward to it.

edit: after reading your post better, i also recommend watching ichi the killer it has some pretty ironic humor with the violence. it really turned me on to korean cinema but ugh it is gross for the weak stomached.

Miike is Japanese.

P.S. I saw Audition first, and then was at my local Roger's video store one day (family oriented store kinda like Blockbuster but a little more interesting) and they had a pile of $7.50 previously viewed DVDs for sale. I came across Visitor Q and thought, "Hey cool, another movie by Miike. Gotta see it." I definitely didn't know what I was in for. I'm just surprised they had it there, and obviously it had been viewed at least a few times judging by the condition of the package.

BTW, one good movie I just saw is Dumplings - Three Extremes. It's a beautifully shot (with the cinematographer Christopher Doyle from Hero) dramatic social satire... in the guise of a light horror movie about dumplings with special ingredients.

[hardcat1970]

double post

[hardcat1970]

Originally posted by hardcat1970:
well, the japanese are known for the house of the incest films

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Even though there were every messed up thing happening in the book the part that disturbed me the most was the whole breast milk thing.

What is this movie rated anyway? Must be more than an R rating.

[BoomStick]

There was some horror flick that got banned in the UK because it was basically a 2 hour snuff flick.

There was a scene where the killers disembowel a girl alive extremely graphicly.

[wdlove]

These movies are only made because are paying to see them.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by wdlove:
These movies are only made because are paying to see them.

I'll have to run that one past the cryptographers. At any rate i want to know what you were doing in here of all people. Secret life perhaps?

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by BoomStick:
There was some horror flick that got banned in the UK because it was basically a 2 hour snuff flick.

There was a scene where the killers disembowel a girl alive extremely graphicly.

Just to be clear, Visitor Q is NOTHING like that. This movie is graphic, but less graphic than many current horror movies, including the recent Shaun of the Dead. However, it's still extremely warped, in other ways.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Just to be clear, Visitor Q is NOTHING like that. This movie is graphic, but less graphic than many current horror movies, including the recent Shaun of the Dead. However, it's still extremely warped, in other ways.

Ya there is no real gore in terms of blood and guts. Lots of female frontal nudity though.
It is just the content that makes it so disturbing.

Funny thing is they dew the line at showing penis' and blurred them out.

[hardcat1970]

how scary is the audition? I tried to find the reviews, but everyone just said it was the scariest movie that they have ever seen.

[TheBadgerHunter]

I don't know. Doesn't sound that disturbing. Kinda seems to have a warm fuzzy ending too.

[ThinkInsane]

Originally posted by hardcat1970:
how scary is the audition? I tried to find the reviews, but everyone just said it was the scariest movie that they have ever seen.

It's scary in a psychological sense, not the make you jump out of your skin sense. Great movie, if you're into the genre. I've shown it to people that aren't big into horror, or that aren't into Japanese horror, and they thought it was ****. I thought it was pretty creepy.

http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/odishon.htm <--- Review

[Angus_D]

Gozu... Now that's really ****ed up. (Takashi Miike, of Ichi the Killer fame - haven't seen the latter though).

[Goldfinger]

Why is it that Japanese make these weird disturbing movies ?

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
Why is it that Japanese make these weird disturbing movies ?

All the Japanese movies in this thread (Visitor Q, Audition, Ichi the Killer, Gozu) are by the same director, Takashi Miike.

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
BTW, one good movie I just saw is Dumplings - Three Extremes. It's a beautifully shot (with the cinematographer Christopher Doyle from Hero) dramatic social satire... in the guise of a light horror movie about dumplings with special ingredients.

Oh and Dumplings is part of the Three... Extremes "trilogy", which is 3 different movies (one Chinese, one Japanese, and one Korean) pared down into one combo movie. (The Dumplings movie I saw is the full length version though.) Takashi Miike is the director in the Japanese portion of Three Extremes.

I tried to get the Three Extremes trilogy version but I can't find it. The local store where I usually get my foreign movies is completely sold out of it.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
Why is it that Japanese make these weird disturbing movies ?

Because most everything there is fetishism.

I mean buying soiled schoolgirl panties in a vending machine?

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
Because most everything there is fetishism.

I mean buying soiled schoolgirl panties in a vending machine?

When I was working in a hospital in Montréal, some woman offered to buy used gauze from a wound from a famous musician who showed up there after an accident.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
So you liked it then?

Yeah, but it was horror movie kinda disturbing. Visitor Q is just whacked.

I haven't seen it yet. Looking forward to it.

Miike is Japanese.

P.S. I saw Audition first, and then was at my local Roger's video store one day (family oriented store kinda like Blockbuster but a little more interesting) and they had a pile of $7.50 previously viewed DVDs for sale. I came across Visitor Q and thought, "Hey cool, another movie by Miike. Gotta see it." I definitely didn't know what I was in for. I'm just surprised they had it there, and obviously it had been viewed at least a few times judging by the condition of the package.

BTW, one good movie I just saw is Dumplings - Three Extremes. It's a beautifully shot (with the cinematographer Christopher Doyle from Hero) dramatic social satire... in the guise of a light horror movie about dumplings with special ingredients.

oh my bad i thought it was korean .\ /. whoops.
i just bought oldboy off ebay and its korean so i dunno i just took a guess.
badidea: you can find it at some local retailers but best bet is ebay or other online dealers. i got oldboy off ebay for 4.95 and 5 dollars shipping to ship to US from canada.
lol whoever mentioned gigli is way off. these are disturbing movies but still great movies its just some of the imagery and scenes are gross but the movie is still good.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Oh and Dumplings is part of the Three... Extremes "trilogy", which is 3 different movies (one Chinese, one Japanese, and one Korean) pared down into one combo movie. (The Dumplings movie I saw is the full length version though.) Takashi Miike is the director in the Japanese portion of Three Extremes.

I tried to get the Three Extremes trilogy version but I can't find it. The local store where I usually get my foreign movies is completely sold out of it.

i'll definitely have to check that out. sealab 2021 season 2 came out today so i'll save that one for next week.

[Eug Wanker]

Heheh, I love it.

"One often feels while watching a Takashi Miike movie that 1) there are no rules and 2) The person in charge must be a total and complete maniac." - Patrick Macias, TokyoScope

"Many, many jaw-dropping moments and cinematic firsts, Visitor Q is a gut-busting, colon-clenching, deadpan hymn to the triumph of the dysfunctional family." - Asian Films Are Go!

"It's meta-weird, but most rewarding." - Richard Corliss, Time

"This being a family newspaper, I won't go into detail about Visitor Q, but I will tell you that it has been banned in New Zealand." - V.A. Musetto, NY Post

"A comedy so black it's milky white. Miike moves so quickly that his only contemporary competition is himself." - Chuck Stephens, Film Comment

"For social norms peeled, boiled and ground into pulp, Takashi Miike's Visitor Q reigns." - Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice

"The motion picture equivalent of a bucket of acid thrown in the face of normality and good taste." - Julian Fonfrede, FantAsia Film Festival

"You thought Pier Paolo Pasolini's films were grotesque? Then welcome to Takashi Miike's Visitor Q. you have been warned." - Miyako Matsuda, Protoculture Addicts

"Of the five or six movies Miike made last year Visitor Q is the most offensive." - Tony Rayns, Vancouver International Film Festival

[hardcat1970]

can anyone describe the gruesome scenes of Audition, i want to know if i can handle it because i don't really like bloody movie.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
"The motion picture equivalent of a bucket of acid thrown in the face of normality and good taste." - Julian Fonfrede, FantAsia Film Festival [/i]

lol thats the best one.

[Eug Wanker]

<-- Click me!

Originally posted by hardcat1970:
can anyone describe the gruesome scenes of Audition, i want to know if i can handle it because i don't really like bloody movie.

<-- Click me!

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Here is a scene at the end of visitor Q if you want to be sure you can handle it:

SPOILERS

A man rapes and strangles his co-worker on the side of the road while some guy he just met records it. They then take her home to chop up the body, the killer takes a red marker and starts marking the limbs where he is going to cut her up. He becomes sexually aroused by it and starts to hump her. The is having sex with her for a while and becomes amazed that a corpse can become "Wet". Turns out the corpse just pooped herself so he smears it all over her back and continues to hump (still taping BTW). Meanwhile his wife is in the kitchen wearing a garbage bag squirting milk from her breasts on the same stranger all over the kitchen until an inch deep of it covers the floor.

After rigamortis sets in and he can't pull his penis out of her. He gets help from the stranger and his wife to get them both into the bathtub, the wife goes to the store to buy vinegar to soften his skin in the bath. Still it doesn't come out so the wife runs to her room and gets a needle with her Crystal Meth and injects her husband, his penis pops right out.

Then the teenage boy who also beats his meth addict mother comes home with bullies bothering him. His parents who are done with the corpse for now run out and kill the 3 teenage boys with a knife to the skull (with sawing action) and a screwdriver to the chest.

This isn't the manson family BTW, they seem to be a normal lower middle class family that just go nuts.

[screamingFit]

I just started getting into Japanese Horror/Weird films so I appreciate all the tips on what to watch next! I need more, please!

I watched Uzumaki last night and really enjoyed it. There's been some (like Tomie) that I just couldn't get into, though. Still made me go WTF - but that's good!

I really appreciate these Japanese filmmakers pushing the boundaries of the medium. I just don't understand how how these people think - is it cultural? I've watched my share of weird American directors (i.e. Lynch and others) but these Japanese filmmakers are way beyond!

Not horror but the film 2LDK was pretty good. Nothing better than two chicks fighting to the death with household items!

[Goldfinger]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
Here is a scene at the end of visitor Q if you want to be sure you can handle it:

SPOILERS

A man rapes and strangles his co-worker on the side of the road while some guy he just met records it. They then take her home to chop up the body, the killer takes a red marker and starts marking the limbs where he is going to cut her up. He becomes sexually aroused by it and starts to hump her. The is having sex with her for a while and becomes amazed that a corpse can become "Wet". Turns out the corpse just pooped herself so he smears it all over her back and continues to hump (still taping BTW). Meanwhile his wife is in the kitchen wearing a garbage bag squirting milk from her breasts on the same stranger all over the kitchen until an inch deep of it covers the floor.

After rigamortis sets in and he can't pull his penis out of her. He gets help from the stranger and his wife to get them both into the bathtub, the wife goes to the store to buy vinegar to soften his skin in the bath. Still it doesn't come out so the wife runs to her room and gets a needle with her Crystal Meth and injects her husband, his penis pops right out.

Then the teenage boy who also beats his meth addict mother comes home with bullies bothering him. His parents who are done with the corpse for now run out and kill the 3 teenage boys with a knife to the skull (with sawing action) and a screwdriver to the chest.

This isn't the manson family BTW, they seem to be a normal lower middle class family that just go nuts.

This sounds like some kind of comedy

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
This sounds like some kind of comedy

most of them are funny if you can get the humor.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
This sounds like some kind of comedy

Well like i said it is so over the top it is funny.

[Ghoser777]

Originally posted by wdlove:
These movies are only made because people are paying to see them.

Fixed™

This is sort of true - the problem is the process isn't retroactive. The makers of bad movies don't necessarially know they're really not going to do well until the movie is already too far into the creation process to stop or until they see how terrible their ticket sales are. That usually does have an effect on future movies (like I doubt you'll see a Gigli 2).

[qnxde]

Originally posted by wdlove:
These movies are only made because are paying to see them.

Sounds like a functioning economy to me.

[hagheid]

Coprophagia is involved..... So they eat ****...........
Now read some:
"And a wonderfully inspired piece of exaggeration it is too. Crazy as this film may seem, everything that happens has its logic. The relationships between the characters are in fact little more than an allegory for their actual roles within the family unit. The behaviour of the characters, and the dynamics and relationships between them are skilfully observed and though their habits seem at first excessive, at their core each of them is surprisingly true to their traditional family roles."

[Eug Wanker]

Coprophagia is involved..... So they eat ****...........

Not in Visitor Q, unless I missed something.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Mafia:
audition was one of the single most disturbing films i've ever seen. kids wasn't really visually disturbing, it was more mentally disturbing. ichi the killer is also really gross (although it is a great movie, if you can get past the nastyness).

edit: after reading your post better, i also recommend watching ichi the killer it has some pretty ironic humor with the violence. it really turned me on to korean cinema but ugh it is gross for the weak stomached.

I finally just saw Ichi the Killer. That was truly warped. Audition is still more disturbing though.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
I finally just saw Ichi the Killer. That was truly warped. Audition is still more disturbing though.

What is the diff between that and Ichi The Killer: Episode 0?

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
I finally just saw Ichi the Killer. That was truly warped. Audition is still more disturbing though.

agreed. i got my oldboy from ebay. great movie its more mentally warped then like physically sickening. great movie, director is kind of like a good m. night. shanalkajdfakljdfa;lkdjfa;lkjdf.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Lots of female frontal nudity though.

No wonder you thought it was disturbing.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
What is the diff between that and Ichi The Killer: Episode 0?

Ichi The Killer - Episode 0 is an anime prequel to the the original Ichi The Killer movie. Note that Ichi The Killer is based on Japanese manga though.



I have not seen Ichi The Killer - Episode 0.

BTW, out of Ichi The Killer, Visitor Q, and Audition, I like Audition the best, but Visitor Q is the most warped.

Originally posted by Zimphire:
No wonder you thought it was disturbing.

LOL

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
No wonder you thought it was disturbing.

Imagine the fandom involved to sift though all the posts to come up with a highly uncreative post like that


"Im scared of boobs, oh me oh my"

[andretan]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
BTW, one good movie I just saw is Dumplings - Three Extremes. It's a beautifully shot (with the cinematographer Christopher Doyle from Hero) dramatic social satire... in the guise of a light horror movie about dumplings with special ingredients.

After I watched Dumplings, I kinda stayed off dumplings for a couple of weeks.
Heh.

[MilkmanDan]

Yeah... Japanese films are very odd. But they beat the heck out of US horror films.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Naked lunch is totally weird without having to get shocking gross. I watched it again last night.

[andretan]

Has anyone watched Living Hell? (pix in link!)

Japanese horror flick. Kinda spooked me too when I watched it years ago.

Anyone has it?