Some audiences search out the most disgusting and depraved films that they can find. Movies have the ability to leave their mark on a psychological level or a more visceral one that seeks to leave you feeling queasy and dirty. Here’s a look at 10 movies that are sure to scar you for life.
10. ‘Grotesque’ (2009) L-r: Hiroaki Kawatsure as Kazuo Kojima and Shigeo Ôsako as The Doctor | Media Blasters
A mysterious man identified only as “the doctor” kidnaps a young couple (Hiroaki Kawatsure and Kotoha Hiroyama) and begins to perform extreme torture on them. He puts them through a game for survival designed to slowly destroy their hopes of making it out with their lives.
Kôji Shiraishi’s Grotesque falls into the “torture porn” sub-genre that James Wan’s Saw and Eli Roth’s Hostel popularized in the 2000s. However, this Japanese exploitation horror flick pushes all boundaries, introducing...
10. ‘Grotesque’ (2009) L-r: Hiroaki Kawatsure as Kazuo Kojima and Shigeo Ôsako as The Doctor | Media Blasters
A mysterious man identified only as “the doctor” kidnaps a young couple (Hiroaki Kawatsure and Kotoha Hiroyama) and begins to perform extreme torture on them. He puts them through a game for survival designed to slowly destroy their hopes of making it out with their lives.
Kôji Shiraishi’s Grotesque falls into the “torture porn” sub-genre that James Wan’s Saw and Eli Roth’s Hostel popularized in the 2000s. However, this Japanese exploitation horror flick pushes all boundaries, introducing...
- 2/21/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Although now known as the writer/director of “Life: Untitled” and as the writer of two episodes of “The Naked Director”, Kana Yamada had also found the theatrical group ROJI9 in 2010 and had directed and wrote a number of shorts beforehand. 29 minutes-long “Shinjuku Girl” is one of those films.
Shinjuku Girl is streaming on TodoiF
The titular character is a girl who is trying to make a career as an internet persona (idol if you prefer), although a number of her audience seem to only want to see her naked. At the same time, she still holds a grudge on her ex-boyfriend, which she shares with a friend in a rather loud club in Shinjuku as the movie begins. Eventually, after much drinking and fending off drunken salary men who want to have sex with her, she calls him. When he does not answer, she decides to go to the apartment he lives in,...
Shinjuku Girl is streaming on TodoiF
The titular character is a girl who is trying to make a career as an internet persona (idol if you prefer), although a number of her audience seem to only want to see her naked. At the same time, she still holds a grudge on her ex-boyfriend, which she shares with a friend in a rather loud club in Shinjuku as the movie begins. Eventually, after much drinking and fending off drunken salary men who want to have sex with her, she calls him. When he does not answer, she decides to go to the apartment he lives in,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Year: 2009
Director: Koji Shiraishi
Cast: Tsugumi Nagasawa, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Osako
Walking home from their first date together, a smitten young couple is attacked and abducted by a sadistic assailant. When they awake, they find themselves bound in a dark, menacing basement. Immediately, they are savagely tortured by their captor in some of the most ruthless, inhumane means ever committed to film.
Grotesque is perhaps the most mean-spirited and cruel film to be released in quite sometime. This declaration alone will be enough to cause some horror fans to rush to put the film into their Netflix que or order their copy from their favorite online merchant. Certainly this is understandable, as most wildly successful films have garnered their statuses based on outlandish claims such as being "the scariest film since The Exorcist" or "Will make Saw look like a pre-school picnic." In fact, Grotesque already has ignited much interest...
Director: Koji Shiraishi
Cast: Tsugumi Nagasawa, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Osako
Walking home from their first date together, a smitten young couple is attacked and abducted by a sadistic assailant. When they awake, they find themselves bound in a dark, menacing basement. Immediately, they are savagely tortured by their captor in some of the most ruthless, inhumane means ever committed to film.
Grotesque is perhaps the most mean-spirited and cruel film to be released in quite sometime. This declaration alone will be enough to cause some horror fans to rush to put the film into their Netflix que or order their copy from their favorite online merchant. Certainly this is understandable, as most wildly successful films have garnered their statuses based on outlandish claims such as being "the scariest film since The Exorcist" or "Will make Saw look like a pre-school picnic." In fact, Grotesque already has ignited much interest...
- 8/31/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Troy)
- Fright Meter
[This review initially appeared when the film screened at Germany's Nippon Connection and with the film appearing this weekend at the Shinsedai Festival in Toronto we present it again now.]
When I think of concert films I tend to think of them as static. Even if the filmmaker is following a band on tour things tend to progress from one stage show to the next. If the music is great then it can be electrifying, but concert films still present a real challenge to a director. How can people playing music on stage carry an entire feature film? Some have found that magic formula, namely my favorites like Chris Blum's film of Tom Waits's 1988 American tour "Big Time", Laurie Anderson's groundbreaking "Home of the Brave" and that little piece of Toronto punk rock history "The Last Pogo" shot at the city's Horseshoe Tavern. I was lucky enough to recently add to my list of favorite concert films when I got a chance to see Tetsuaki Matsue's "Live Tape", the winner of the top prize in the...
When I think of concert films I tend to think of them as static. Even if the filmmaker is following a band on tour things tend to progress from one stage show to the next. If the music is great then it can be electrifying, but concert films still present a real challenge to a director. How can people playing music on stage carry an entire feature film? Some have found that magic formula, namely my favorites like Chris Blum's film of Tom Waits's 1988 American tour "Big Time", Laurie Anderson's groundbreaking "Home of the Brave" and that little piece of Toronto punk rock history "The Last Pogo" shot at the city's Horseshoe Tavern. I was lucky enough to recently add to my list of favorite concert films when I got a chance to see Tetsuaki Matsue's "Live Tape", the winner of the top prize in the...
- 7/21/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]
When I think of concert films I tend to think of them as static. Even if the filmmaker is following a band on tour things tend to progress from one stage show to the next. If the music is great then it can be electrifying, but concert films still present a real challenge to a director. How can people playing music on stage carry an entire feature film? Some have found that magic formula, namely my favorites like Chris Blum's film of Tom Waits's 1988 American tour "Big Time", Laurie Anderson's groundbreaking "Home of the Brave" and that little piece of Toronto punk rock history "The Last Pogo" shot at the city's Horseshoe Tavern. I was lucky enough to recently add to my list of favorite concert films when I got a chance to see Tetsuaki Matsue's "Live Tape", the winner of the top prize in the...
When I think of concert films I tend to think of them as static. Even if the filmmaker is following a band on tour things tend to progress from one stage show to the next. If the music is great then it can be electrifying, but concert films still present a real challenge to a director. How can people playing music on stage carry an entire feature film? Some have found that magic formula, namely my favorites like Chris Blum's film of Tom Waits's 1988 American tour "Big Time", Laurie Anderson's groundbreaking "Home of the Brave" and that little piece of Toronto punk rock history "The Last Pogo" shot at the city's Horseshoe Tavern. I was lucky enough to recently add to my list of favorite concert films when I got a chance to see Tetsuaki Matsue's "Live Tape", the winner of the top prize in the...
- 4/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Regular readers of Twitch may very well recall us mentioning The Ancient Dogoo Girl a good while back. A low budget television series initiated by Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi -- who then roped in pals Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and Takashi Shimizu (Juon, The Grudge) to direct episodes -- and produced for a minor Japanese cable network available only in parts of the country, Dogoo revolves around an ancient yokai-battling warrior revived in modern times. As you'd expect from an Iguchi project, the lead is not exactly shy about showing off flesh and the entire thing is shot through with crazy creatures and unrepentant adolescent energy.
The big question, of course, is when people would be able to see this thing. Heck - a healthy portion of Japan hasn't even been able to see it yet, so what are the chance of it being seen over here? Well,...
The big question, of course, is when people would be able to see this thing. Heck - a healthy portion of Japan hasn't even been able to see it yet, so what are the chance of it being seen over here? Well,...
- 1/29/2010
- Screen Anarchy
A Japanese film in the torture porn, or so-called gorno, sub-genre - made popular by such releases as Saw and Hostel (pictured) - has been banned in the UK.
Film bosses have refused to give a certificate to a sadistic horror movie called Gurotesuku - Grotesque, in English - meaning it's now illegal to release, sell or supply the movie.
Distributors hoped to get an 18 certificate for the 74-minute film, so it could be released here on DVD. The movie's subtitle proclaims that 'Saw and Hostel were just appetisers.'
Most of the film - written and directed by Koji Shiraishi - focuses on the assault, humiliation and torture of a young couple (played by Tsugumi Nagasawa and Hiroaki Kawatsure).
They are snatched off the street on their first date and wake up shackled and naked in a basement where, with seemingly no explanation, a sadistic madman (played by Shigeo...
Film bosses have refused to give a certificate to a sadistic horror movie called Gurotesuku - Grotesque, in English - meaning it's now illegal to release, sell or supply the movie.
Distributors hoped to get an 18 certificate for the 74-minute film, so it could be released here on DVD. The movie's subtitle proclaims that 'Saw and Hostel were just appetisers.'
Most of the film - written and directed by Koji Shiraishi - focuses on the assault, humiliation and torture of a young couple (played by Tsugumi Nagasawa and Hiroaki Kawatsure).
They are snatched off the street on their first date and wake up shackled and naked in a basement where, with seemingly no explanation, a sadistic madman (played by Shigeo...
- 8/22/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Billed as "the cruellest Japanese splatter movie ever" (a statement that doesn't do the film's graphic scenes of torture and dismemberment anywhere near enough justice), Grotesque makes the likes of "Saw" and "Hostel" look like about as scary as a Kitten. Written and directed by Koji Shiraishi (Carved aka A Slit-Mouthed Woman) and starring Hiroaki Kawatsure (Chanbara Beauty; Carved) and Japanese porn star Tsugumi Nagasawa (Tokyo Gore Police), the film takes the concept of Japanese extreme cinema to a whole new level. Relentlessly and explicitly graphic, this is definitely not a film for the easily offended, or the faint-hearted. Grotesque (cert. 18) will be released on DVD by 4Digital Asia on 17th August 2009.
- 6/27/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Billed as "the cruellest Japanese splatter movie ever" (a statement that doesn't do the film's graphic scenes of torture and dismemberment anywhere near enough justice), Grotesque makes the likes of "Saw" and "Hostel" look like about as scary as a Kitten. Written and directed by Koji Shiraishi (Carved aka A Slit-Mouthed Woman) and starring Hiroaki Kawatsure (Chanbara Beauty; Carved) and Japanese porn star Tsugumi Nagasawa (Tokyo Gore Police), the film takes the concept of Japanese extreme cinema to a whole new level. Relentlessly and explicitly graphic, this is definitely not a film for the easily offended, or the faint-hearted. Grotesque (cert. 18) will be released on DVD by 4Digital Asia on 17th August 2009.
- 6/27/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Billed as "the cruellest Japanese splatter movie ever" (a statement that doesn't do the film's graphic scenes of torture and dismemberment anywhere near enough justice), Grotesque makes the likes of "Saw" and "Hostel" look like about as scary as a Kitten. Written and directed by Koji Shiraishi (Carved aka A Slit-Mouthed Woman) and starring Hiroaki Kawatsure (Chanbara Beauty; Carved) and Japanese porn star Tsugumi Nagasawa (Tokyo Gore Police), the film takes the concept of Japanese extreme cinema to a whole new level. Relentlessly and explicitly graphic, this is definitely not a film for the easily offended, or the faint-hearted. Grotesque (cert. 18) will be released on DVD by 4Digital Asia on 17th August 2009.
- 6/27/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
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