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Movie Reviews of Stacy
Movie Review: Schoolgirl zombies, roar.
Summary: 5 Stars
Stacy: Attack Of The Schoolgirl Zombies
directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu
2001, 80 mins.
Stacy is a movie about, you guessed it, Stacy. Or well, Stacies, actually. Teenage girls, aged 15-17, somehow just die after experiencing some kind of Near Death Happiness. After dying, they turn into, yup, zombies. (the title didn't really give that one away, did it?) They demand to be chopped up into 165 pieces to be 're-killed'. This is what the 'story' revolves around, although the story is not really of any importance, or so it seems.
We see a girl who (unconvincingly) experiences the earlier mentioned Near Death Happiness and then goes on the look for someone to chop her up when she dies and turns into a zombie (uh). She finds a puppet-maker, Shibu, who agrees to kill her. Another (sub?)plot revolves around a guy whose sister has become a Stacy (he had to kill her after that) and therefore joins Romero, the special unit that kills the Stacies. It's quite confusing, and too pretentious by far, but besides all that, the movie provides a whole lot of fun. Tongue-in-cheek scenes (one involving some kind of TelSell advertisement where a 'Blues Campbell's Right Hand #2' is sold) help to keep your attention to it.
The movie isn't really scary (read: not at all), but the gore and fun make up for it. A strong stomach is advised for some scenes, such as the one where a Stacy gets decapitated, and some others where people get devoured quite gruesomely (guts ripped out and such). Watch it if you like zombies, Japanese schoolgirls, or both.
mos says:
Scares? 0/10
Gore? 7/10
Japanese schoolgirl zombies? 10/10
Fun factor? 7/10
Hundred-n-sixty-five-pieces? Many pieces, but not 165/10
Movie Review: Awesome, yet misunderstood
Summary: 5 Stars
My feeling is that the people who rate this movie poorly most likely had their expectations so firmly set about what kind of film to expect that they can't judge it on its own merits. I think that if you understand this film, you can't help but love it (unless you totally hate J-schlock wholesale, in which case, why are you watching it?).
This film is schlock genius, and one of my favorite films.
If you come to it with an open mind, and an appreciation for this style of filmmaking, I think you'll find this film to be quite wonderful.
Stacy presents a Zombie love story that is seriously charming, yet at the same time bizarre and disturbing. Above all else, this film is a love story. That one of the lovers happens to be a Zombie doesn't change this fact. Sure, the horror aspects are bizarre and violent enough for schlock horror fans to enjoy, but that's not the point. This is a sweet and somewhat wry allegory for the creators' take on the Japanese social dilemmas involving love. It's not a broad Zombie comedy like "Shaun of the Dead," nor a straight-up horror flick either. It's something entirely different, and possibly unprecedented.
This director, and his cast (especially the Japanese Vincent Price analogue) should make more films.
Movie Review: Love and zombies, Japan's social issues
Summary: 5 Stars
I think a lot of people griped about the love story in STACY that seemed incongruous but I think it was the whole point of the movie. Young girls dying and craving flesh. They starved [emotionally] and woke from the dead hungering for blood or as I believe any human contact.In Japan, the librarians wear whistles in the building so they can call for help if a male patron is bothering female staff. There are seperate female trains because molestation of adult women is bad. Japan is still behind the times on equal rights for women and sexual harrassment in the workplace.
SO, when the Stacy's happen, women become these dangerous things and suddenly the men are sad and lacking and have to butcher their girlfriends and daughters to keep them coming back from the dead and eating them. Even though Japan's women have been socially butchered for centuries being second class citizens. And the phenom is mentioned as happening around the world.
In the end the men learn to love the Stacys and miraculously they stop eating people and a new race of men is formed and a peaceful world is created...and the new Bible...the play written by the puppeteer...itself a love story.
In a nutshell, love the women in your life or they'll come back and eat you.
Movie Review: I'm Japanese and Just FYI
Summary: 5 Stars
"Stacy" is from Japanese Words "Sute Isi" which means a "Stepping Stone".
This movie (or the original novel written by Kenji Otsuki) is a metaphor.
You know, in the 80's in Japan, there was a boom called 'the Band Boom.'
There were many Rock'n'roll, Soul, Pop Bands of various styles.
And After the fever gone, Japanese music scene went an unified, boring stage.
In this movie, at the begining, the zombies terrified the whole world.
But in the end, people leaned how to tame them.
Kenji Otsuki was once a Rock'n'roll (or Heavy Metal) icon and had a very
big time and then he got losed. In other words, the 80's bands including
his band 'Kinniku shoujo tai' got overwhelmed by the commercialism of
Japanese music industrials.
Thru' this experience he wrote this novel.
He felt that his band and other bands were merely the stepping stones
('Sute Ishi' or 'Stacy') during the evolution (or degeneration) of Japanese music scene.
So if u know the background like this, u'll find this movie is rather
cynical or critical metaphor and u'll find this movie more enjoyable!
Movie Review: A Zombie LOVE STORY???
Summary: 5 Stars
Just when I thought I had seen it all, along comes
"Stacy" - a film from the Asia Cult Cinema Collection
by Naoyuki Tomomatsu. I thought it was simply going
be another zombie zinger like "Dawn of the Dead" or
"Night of the Living Dead", but this gruesome grinder
is all about love...the lack of...and need for. Need
I say more? A Zombie Love Story??? It has extreme
gore effects and comedy with all the elements of
"Resident Evil" and George Romero's "Day of the Dead".
The ending is quite good...and touching...if you can
believe a zombie flick could even venture into romance
and amor. I've never seen anything like it! You have
to be a hardcore horror fan to appreciate the talent
(or lack of) that went into this piece. Let's leave
it this way...here's what's written on the back of the
box: "WARNING! This film contains scenes with
chainsaws, graphic gore, extreme violence and girls in
bunny outfits." In the tongue-in-cheek zombie genre',
Stacy" gets a 5!