Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Prostitutes! Transform and Roll Out!

Here is a link. Click and watch the brief trailer.

So a few years back, some friends and I gathered around a television set, poured ourselves an obscene amount of alcohol, and watched a DVD I had picked up earlier that day, titled Machine Girl. Machine Girl was about a Japanese schoolgirl who had her arm cut off, so she found a couple of kindly auto mechanics to build her a new one. Only instead of an arm, they gave her a giant machine gun.

It featured a ridiculous amount of violence and campy kung fu, all culminating in a fight with the wife of the mobster we thought would be the villain, whose breasts had been replaced with power drills. Machine Girl was a movie with no shame or remorse, and it was one of the finer B movies I've ever seen.

And now, the series' creator Noboru Iguchi has teamed up with special effects designer Yoshihiro Nishimura (whose cult hit Tokyo Gore Police reportedly used 4 tons of stage blood) to produce RoboGeisha.

Some movies are so bad and ridiculous that they come out on the other end of the spectrum and become sublime. With enough alcohol, this is exactly what Machine Girl did. After watching the RoboGeisha trailer, I fear that this movie may pull that exact stunt, and then keep going, crossing the spectrum to crappy all over again. All the same, I will expect everyone to gather around a television and watch this with me, because I am TOTALLY buying the DVD. Totally.

1 comment:

  1. Through ridiculous, out the other side, and come out as sublime? Like Deerfoot?

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