Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine, where they meet housewife Kanae and school girl Tamae. With no choices left to them, the group of girls decides to take a stand and arm themselves with assault rifles and explosives to fight off hordes of horny zombies. What is the secret to killing the zombies for good?
Our read · Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal comedy · horror · zombie entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Rape Zombie
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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