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Movie Reviews of Stacy
Movie Review: Brilliant, Bizarre, Ahead of its Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Most people probably won't like this movie. It is not for most people.
That said, if you love zombie movies, basement budget B-movies, gore, earnest sincerity by extremely socially inept characters, gore, strange concepts made stranger by surreal cinematic effects , creepy examinations of the intersection of sex, death, and innocence, and more gore, you might like this movie.
I'm not making any guarantees. The existential love story wrapped in zombie gore is not for everyone. But I cried the second or third time I watched it, which is unusual for me and any film. No one I've shown it to has reacted similarly - responses include laughter (my response, too, on first viewing), horror, annoyance, and boredom.
I was sold on the fashion chainsaws.
Movie Review: MOST DISTURB MOVIE EVER MADE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say about Stacy, it most disturbed movie ever made, but I really enjoyed this movie. I found this movie to be like a bad car accident you just cannot resist watching this movie. I mean one point one character says that he is love with one the Stacies, and want to run away with her. And at one point they say that Stacies and men end up have offspring, which is so wrong on many levels I mean (...) is messed up. I like the little Easter egg within this movie the Romeos, the army that hunts the Stacies, which in tribute to horror legend George Romero, and The Bruce Campbell right hand saws, which is reference to Bruce Campbell's famous role as Ashley (Ash) J. Williams.
I would have say this film is guilt little pleasure (...)
Movie Review: Highly Underrated.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read a lot of bad reviews on this movie and when I saw it I wasn't quite sure why the reviewers thought so lightly of it. Yeah, the visual effects aren't multimillion budget quality. In my opinion, the B-Movie gore effects are what made the movie a classic. The only thing I found displeasing in Stacy was the awkward thing they did with their tounges after they return from the dead. Some might not like the way the undead school girls walk, which is much rather twitching than walking, but I personally found it to be far more creepy that way. Well, if you like zombie films and you can appreciate low budget films, then I recommend this film to you.Movie Review: A movie about Love
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes I think other reviewers turn their brains off when they watch a movie. I thought I was buying a gore movie about zombies. When I watched my new purchase, I learned that I had actually bought a deeply intense and emotional story about Love. Girls need love, and they crave it badly.This movie does have a lot of gore. Pretty good gore, too. But it is all just background. The Bruce Campbell brand chain saw might seem a little cheesy, but it just adds to the nice atmosphere of the movie.
There is a lot to learn from this movie, and it warrants several watchings to truely grasp the deepness of its message.
Movie Review: Expect the unexpected
Summary: 4 Stars
On a purely gut level, "Stacy" sounds like a great movie. An extremely low budget film that looks like director Naoyuki Tomomatsu shot on video, the movie consists of a bunch of young Japanese schoolgirls turned into ravenous zombies running around tearing people to shreds. That one line alone ought to inspire the avid horror fan to run, not walk, to the nearest DVD dispersal point for a copy. Another selling point for the film, in my eyes, is the fact that Synapse films performed the transfer to DVD. This company is a true hero for the horror fan, releasing obscure film after obscure film from around the world for our viewing pleasure. I recently read an article concerning the DVD release of "The Deadly Spawn" that claimed Synapse spent more money on the restoration than the filmmakers did on the entire movie! And we're not talking pocket change, either. That's what I call dedication. A final reason to pick up this film, if the above two reasons don't do the trick, is the superiority of this shot on video production compared to the dreck spooned out over here by companies like Sub Rosa. It is obvious Tomomatsu has enough talent to move on to film, something I can't say for the directors of "Shatter Dead" and "Peter Rottentail."
Something sinister on a global scale is occurring in the film "Stacy." Some malady--whether biological, chemical, or psychological no one knows as of yet--is causing pre-teen girls everywhere to perish suddenly. As bad as that sounds, what happens afterwards is a real nightmare: the girls emerge from their tombs as mindless flesheating zombies willing to prey on family members, friends, and total strangers. At some point, a talking head attached the moniker "Stacy" to these hapless victims, a name that stuck and now applies to zombies in every country. The implications of such a catastrophe should be very clear: without these girls growing up to bear children, the human population will move rapidly towards extinction in the coming years. In the meantime, the authorities take all manner of precautions to stem the tide of Stacy related disasters. Governments urge parents to look for the warning signs, including bouts of giggling immediately preceding demise called NDH (Near Death Happiness), and prepare to do the unthinkable. Armed with "Bruce Campbell" chainsaws purchased through companies advertising on television along with a ready supply of government provided trash bags, mother and father must be willing to dispose of their out of control daughters before the child hurts anyone else. Just in case a few milquetoasts can't fire up the old chainsaw when the moment arrives, Romero Repeat Kill soldiers move in too clean up the mess.
None of the above takes center stage in "Stacy," however. We do get to see a few of the messier scenes involving Romero troops and a rampaging Stacy, and we do see a few of the advertisements on television for the Campbell chainsaws (you can wear them on one hand!), but other issues move to the forefront. Specifically, the movie follows the relationship between a puppet designer and a soon to be Stacy. Director Tomomatsu spends a huge amount of time following this budding relationship between an older man and a younger girl. They go out for walks in a garden, engage in long, meaningful talks, and the puppeteer even stages a show for his new girlfriend. It's disconcerting in the extreme for American horror film fans to watch what is essentially a romance movie taking place in the middle of gory carnage. It's all apparently related to the overarching theme Tomomatsu is trying to get across to his audience, about the social position of young girls in Japan in relation to male domination and expectations. Or something along those lines. Whatever it is, "Stacy" sure is a strange, schizophrenic film. Imagine "The Professional" fused with a George Romero gutmuncher.
The horror fan in me wants to reject the social messages of this film--messages I had to read about in the liner notes because I haven't a clue as to how Japanese society works--and focus instead on the extreme gore. And there is a lot of gluey stuff going on, especially during the final scenes when a doctor working on the causes of the Stacy phenomenon loses control of his test subjects. For such a low budget production the gore effects look quite remarkable. Regrettably, the bloody effects work will only take you so far. The rest of the trip consists of the romance angle and cornball antics so inane that will take your breath away. What was up with the girls that formed the underground Romero type group? That they offer to help squeamish parents kill their Stacies is all fine and dandy, since a law requires parents to dispatch their own troublesome female offspring leaves the faint of heart in a quandary, but to name their group after Drew Barrymore? What's next, the Christina Aguilera Attack Squad? The Britney Spears Revolutionary Army? Egad! Too, that constant NDH giggling is likely to work your last nerve to a frazzle long before the movie grinds to a halt.
I can't find it in myself to take "Stacy" out behind the woodshed because of its problems, however. The movie is such an inventive twist on an old horror idea that I generally enjoyed it despite the often impenetrable plot. As for the DVD itself, the picture quality looks fantastic for a shot on video project. Synapse throws in a trailer as an extra, but nothing else. I heard Tomomatsu is in Japan making another zombie film as I write, so perhaps we can expect another weird take on the zombie theme in the future. Give "Stacy" a watch if you like a movie that mystifies as much as it churns the stomach.