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How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos 8. Movie Info. A doctor with extreme and depraved needs kidnaps a couple and forces them to compete in a game of torment that slowly erodes their hopes of survival.
Aug 17, Tsugumi Nagasawa Aki. Hiroaki Kawatsure Kazuo. Yoichi Kobayashi Executive Producer. Kazue Udagawa Producer. Tsuyoshi Sone Film Editor. Norifumi Ataka Production Design. View All Critic Reviews 0. See Movies in Theaters. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Best Horror Movies. Worst Superhero Movies. Best Netflix Series and Shows. Go back. More trailers. Peacemaker: Season 1.
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You're doing such idiotic things like this because you're lonely, right? Bull's eye? Poor thing. How lonely. Sign In. Original title: Gurotesuku. Horror Thriller. A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Trailer [OV]. Photos 4. Add photo. Top cast Edit. Kotoha Hiroyama Aki as Aki. Hiroaki Kawatsure Kazuo as Kazuo. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit.
An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.
King of Japanese Grotesque Movie. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia Distributors of this movie had hoped to be given an 18 certificate for the film, which involves torture such as amputation and eye-gouging. But the British Board of Film Classification said the film featured sexual sadism for its own sake. Also stated that giving the film a rating would involve a "risk of harm" to those viewing it. Therefore no classification was given and selling or supplying the film would now be illegal.
Quotes Aki : I've seen your mother before. Connections Referenced in My Pure Joy User reviews 77 Review. Top review. For years I have watched some of the most graphic, intense, and disturbing movies that I can find. This isn't because I'm some twisted weirdo or anything, but because I'm an all-encompassing cinephile that can and has given 10 star ratings to movies from Beauty And The Beast to Antichrist. To truly love all that film has to offer, you have to understand all that film has to offer.
When you watch extreme cinema, you have to know that the violence and imagery is, if used correctly, serving a purpose, which is usually to heighten your senses of pity, disgust, sympathy, repulsion, etc. Also, it's best if the film has some sort of purpose: Salo is a metaphor for how the upper-class treats and exploits those that they deem below them, Hostel is a satire on the image of the ugly American that has been experienced by other countries, and I could keep going.
This brings me to this film, Grotesque. Without ruining the film it does that on its own , I will say that there is only the slightest bit of back-story which is lazily done and seems it might have been an afterthought , and no attempt at putting any of this within context. Bottom line: a guy abducts a couple and brutally tortures them. That's it. No point, no reason, no character development, nothing. Not only that, it's a technically flawed film as well.
The cinematography is horrible: hand-held zoom-ins, overdone color filters, and an overall poor job. It doesn't help that the majority of the film is very dark and shot on digital video, so you get that annoying video blur whenever the camera moves.
In terms of writing, for the most part there isn't any. When the film finally gets to a point when the characters are saying something other than "Please stop! People that would have gone through what they went would never, ever, show the signs of acceptance or gullibility that they do.
They would be hardened or almost catatonic. If that's not enough, the finale radically shifts the tone for seemingly a cheap laugh in a movie that hasn't earned or even tried to get that reaction at any time beforehand. Whenever I see someone review a film with this level of violence and knock it, even if I think it's great, I understand. These type of films are not everyone's cup of tea.
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