Nonureva
Really Surprised!
Libramedi
Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
christopher-underwood
I didn't find this crazy little film quite as good as many have and I think it was probably, what I would call the MTV sequences, that seemed to distract from the story and exaggerate the silliness. For the most part this is a well put together, extremely OTT film where everything is taken to extremes and the blood spurts and flows more than I have ever seen before. There are some innovative special effects, hand with a head, 'living' screws and various limbs used for extraordinary and imaginative uses. The interaction between the various school kids and others is good and a welcome relief from the madness, its just that every now and again the soundtrack seems to go all J-pop and we get a continuation of the effects without dialogue. Having said all that, this film is certainly engaging, different and very violent without being too distressing, more like a cartoon, in fact. I suppose, I'm saying this is very good without being as brilliant as it might have been.
masercot
If you want a movie chock full of gore, inoffensive jazz and plenty of WTF, this is the movie for you. The movie is so over the top that the top is no longer visible. The motives are the characters are obscure and disregarded. Maybe they were covered in the Manga.Not much in the way of subtlety in this movie. There is a good dose of racism and plenty of good ol' Japanese crazy. Are there better Japanese gore movies? Yes. All of them. Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police and Mutant Girl Squad. If you've seen them, see this one for closure.If you have any kind of standards, though, you might want to avoid this one.
jynx242
It appears that some people don't like or don't get this genre. This movie was SO over the top and SO wildly improbable and inappropriate that I just relished every-single-second of it. It sparked a new interest in the over the top Asian gore-comedy for me. This one almost reminded me of a mash-up of Kill Bill with the Power Rangers.If you are looking for serious and gory Asian Horror, stick with Takashi Miike and the likes. This move (and others like it that I have since watched) is pure camp and fun. The lead character is just cute as a button, and her actions throughout the film are nicely juxtaposed with her looks. Sweet girl...blood swords... I'm actually planning on buying this for my collection.
tfarrell1976
I'm pretty quick to catch onto films and can follow them quite easily, but girl vs girl, was the most boring, drawn out rambling incoherent mess I have had the misfortune to see since the cottage.Seriously its a 2 hour film approximately, and bugger all happens for the first hour, the second hour it only picks up slightly with some cheap gags, but battle between vamp girl and zombie girl is so poor and trite it no way makes up for the rest of the film.Another thing that puzzles me, the boy they fought over, did he have to be such a bland, spineless eunuch, or could they simply not be bothered developing his character, and why these girls would bother fighting over him? But the film makers decided to bore us to death and then in the second half of the film focus on sad set pieces that we where supposed to think original, but instead are trite offensive sexist clichés that where out dated in the 90's.And don't even get me started on the irrelevant "ganjuro girls" apart from wanting to offending black people they served no purpose. Or the ending of the film where pretty boy finds out he's a replacement for her dead servant Igor, at that point the film makers should have pretty boy act like a man and rip vamp girls head off, thus making a happy ending and destroying any possibility of a sequel.Will say saw this on DVD, and the theme song, and little video that plays on the main menu screen are the best parts of this film.That and the end credits too
