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The Machine Girl (2008) Seen this on Tubi and took a chance after reading the plot. This movie is great and I feel like it deserves some recognition. I've already began rewatching it after seeing it this month, and its still great, maybe better than my first viewing. One of the most deliberately cheesy movies I've seen, and the gore is very ...
Jan 12, 2015 · This collaboration between director Iguchi (responsible for SUKEBAN BOY, which featured a girl with two machine-gun legs) and FX man Yoshihiro Nishimura (who has since won accolades as director of the even more insane TOKYO GORE POLICE) is a riotous self-styled cult movie clearly crafted to get at least one major, universal “whoop” of fan boy joy every five minutes wherever it earns a ...
Jun 29, 2011 · The movie follows a college girl named Ami, whose brother is killed by the son of a Yakuza gangster. She goes out to get revenge for her brother, and winds up losing her arm in the process. Later she has a machine gun attached to it. I felt like I was watching an anime (and not a good one) brought to life. The gore is cartoonish, the dialogue ...
May 19, 2011 · The Machine Girl Movie (2008) The Japanese splatter genre often treads a fine line between delivering what disaffected Americanized viewers, cynical of the happy ever after fairytale Hollywood endings (the type of producer-driven ideology that waters down hard boiled noir novels or foreign cinema adaptations), crave, and an outright return to ...
More of a coherent plot and character development than "Tokyo Gore Police" which was a knock for me. I liked the zaniness of Tokyo Gore Police more. In The Machine Girl it doesn't pick up to the level TGP was at until the last third when they get to the shrine, but then it does deliver. Thoughts? What else are like the two I mentioned? I've ...
Jul 3, 2008 · Its characters traipse through a hilariously unbelievable ultra-violent society that feels like it bled directly from a dog-eared manga. The Machine Girl exists in a world where all women wear ...
