Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

trashgang This movie surely got my attention. The cover alone gets your attention. So I was able to catch an official release of this flick at a horror convention. Due the fact that this one is only one hour long I thought that it would be an easy task. It wasn't, the beginning of the movie has a lot of cuttings and weird images of a murder watched by a child. The movie is full of gore, sex, slaughtering and sickening images. Especially the rape scene. The girl had to take a lot and I won't spoil the ending of the scene but it's disgusting. Of course it's a HK Cat III flick but it really gets you. The idea's of the sex fiend is, well perverted. This one couldn't been made here in Europe or the US. It's a sick movie that now has his proper release, catch it and watch it, but be sure you have eaten a while ago.

a-dobbs British cinema-goers of a certain age will doubtless remember with fond affection the now extinct phenomena of the second feature; a shorter, often low budget 'mini film' that preceded the main event (which in my day usually had Doug McClure fighting some men in rubber suits) and were usually funded by the Children's Film Foundation. One thing that the Japanese film industry seems to have excelled at over the past fifty years or so is the production of such sub feature length, low budget 'fillers', but rather than tales involving a pre-pubescent Keith Chegwin foiling kidnappers, these Japanese shorts have been exercises in enveloping stretching when it comes to the abuse of young Asian females.The pedigree can be traced back to Koji Wakamatsu's art house shockers 'Violated Angels' (1967) and 'Go Go Second Time Virgin' (1969) through to the infamous 'Angel Guts' and 'Guinea Pig' series of films, to recent efforts like 'Seketsu No Kizuna' and 'Mu Zan E'. Besides scenes of horrendous and graphic violence inflicted upon women, what these films also have in common is a pretension toward intellectualism, probably in an attempt to legitimise the proceedings in a "Hey, but it's art so it's OK" kind of way. And this mentality leads as nicely to 'Eat The Schoolgirl', because pretension is something that this film has, and has in spades.Directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, 'Eat The Schoolgirl' concerns two young adults who eke out a living doing dirty work for a yakuza gang whose main line of work seems to be making genuine rape/snuff films. Both of them share an obsession with sex; one is addicted to telephone sex whilst the other can only get his rocks off over the sight of eviscerated female corpses. Throughout the film, he is visited by a naked female angel (sometimes with wings, sometimes with scars where the wings used to be) who tells him to go out and kill. This he does in graphic style with the added kink of being dressed as a schoolgirl while he does so.In terms of plot, that's virtually your lot. At least, that's what the whole film boils down to in the final analysis, despite what the filmmakers would have you believe. At barely an hour long, Tomomatsu simply does not allow enough time for any of the 'mysteries' of the plot to unravel. There are hints and flashbacks that suggest our cross dressing killer witnessed something bloody and traumatic as a child (a plot device that's strongly reminiscent of similar in Scavolini's 'Nightmares In A Damaged Brain'), but it's never developed enough to provide any kind of satisfactorily explanation as to what's going on or to give any depth to the film as a whole.And that's the main problem with 'Eat The Schoolgirl'. Rather than develop the identity and motives of the 'angel' and the killer, or to give the two antiheroes any kind of contextualising backgrounds, he prefers instead to focus on lengthy and extremely unpleasant scenes of women being abused, raped, or given forced enemas by cackling males who delight in filming the attacks on video and clearly regard the women as nothing more than objects.Although Tomomatsu is best known for 'Stacy' (though 'Eat The Schoolgirl' pre-dates it by around four years), anyone expecting more good natured blood and gore in the humorous and slapstick style of this later film should be on their guard; 'Eat The Schoolgirl' plays straight as a die and is completely devoid of humour or any moments of light relief. The violence is frequent and bloody and the special effects, though nothing particularly 'special', are graphic and gritty and leave nothing to the imagination. The sex/rape scenes, although never hardcore, are as brutal and harrowing as anything in better known shockers like 'I Spit On Your Grave' and are not at all easy to sit through.But sit through them I did, largely out of interest as to where Tomomatsu was going with the characters and situations, and it so was with some disappointment to find, when the credits rolled, that he wasn't going anywhere with them. Instead, 'Eat The Schoolgirl' plays in style like a jumble of cut up images and ideas that recall a 90's MTV video, a clear example of style over substance with the underlying idea seemingly being that the introduction of some ambiguity and mystery will excuse the images of a naked woman being disembowelled in a shower and her killer masturbating over her writhing body as she tries to hold her intestines in. Subtle? Certainly not, but the feeble attempt to pass off such tacky, exploitative fayre as 'art' leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.

The_Void Director Naoyuki Tomomatsu is probably most famous for his lame zombie comedy 'Stacy', and it is because of that film that I didn't have much hope going into this one. However, for what it is; Eat the Schoolgirl is a surprisingly nasty, and entertaining, little flick that works in spite of its complete lack of plot. The director clearly has some sort of obsession with schoolgirls, and this one starts out with a young lady having 'phone sex'. The scene is actually quite erotic, and got my hopes up for the rest of the movie. I have to say that the film never topped that scene for me, but there are several other memorable sequences - the 'sick' sex scene in a car made me pleased I'd finished my lunch before watching the movie, and a sequence in which a girl tries desperately to stuff her intestines back into her chest takes the cake for one of the most morbid things I've ever seen in a film. There's something to with a tranny who dresses like a schoolgirl, and some lass who's had her angel wings removed (err…naturally). The film is basically just a collection of mostly unrelated scenes involving blood and sex, but most of them are memorable enough to ensure that you're unlikely to care that the film doesn't make sense, and even though this is a silly piece of schlock cinema; and it's a good job it isn't on for long, I've got to say it's one of the better films to come out of modern Asia.

christopher-underwood From the director of, 'Stacy' and pre-dating that film by about 4 years, this is more bloody, less coherent and a bit shorter. It is also extremely weird, hard to follow and packed with sex and bloody death. All known bodily fluids are on show here and all exhibited within a sexually explicit context. So, a naked girl is sick down her front before her assailant cums in the stab wound he has inflicted between the merry moments of their sex and her death. I don't think I need to go into all the gory details but rest assured that all fluids do indeed make an appearance, for good or bad! The opening sequence of phone sex seems a bit strong but it is probably the easiest sequence to take (and it's erotic). From there on as we struggle to make sense of everything, really nasty things happen, like the slit open nude girl, struggling to maintain her balance in the bath as she also struggles to stuff her intestines back inside her. There is so much more and yet the film barely runs an hour. Oh yes, there is an angel too, naked all through the film - I'm not sure if she was a schoolgirl but she didn't get eaten. Actually nobody got eaten, unless we count the numerous scenes of oral sex. Enough!