Grotesque

Grotesque is a 2009 exploitation horror movie directed by Koji Shiraishi. It was later released by Media Blasters one year later in the United States. The movie is known to be extremely brutal and sadistic by many audiences and critics.

Plot
A young couple Aki and Kazuo are snatched off the street while having their first date. They wake up shackled in a basement that has plastic-covered walls. With no further explanation, a sadistic madman degrades, tortures and mutilates them.

Why It's Grotesque (No pun needed)

 * 1) The movie has barely any sort of plot, it is mostly just blood, gore, and torture.
 * 2) Aki pees herself for no reason.
 * 3) The main villain does not have a name, which is really lazy writing.
 * 4) The title is dumb.
 * 5) There is a pointless flashback scene that should have been shown at the start of the movie because all it does is show what happens to Aki and Kazuo.
 * 6) The main villain tries to act polite, he eats cake and drinks tea, he also plays classical music, this is stupid because he is supposed to be crazy, not civilized.
 * 7) There is a scene where the doctor nurses Aki and Kazuo back to health after he tortured them, however, he tortures them again after that scene, making it extremely pointless.
 * 8) This movie is very unrealistic, when the doctor pulls out Kazuo's intestines they are very long, intestines are not that long.
 * 9) There are closeups of Aki's feet, it's like the director had a foot fetish, which is gross.
 * 10) One scene has electronic music that plays in the background, which doesn't fit a horror movie at all.
 * 11) Aki and Kazuo's screaming can get annoying.
 * 12) This movie rips off both Saw and Hostel (to some degree).
 * 13) When the doctor kills Aki, he slices her head off, however, her head pops off and flies upward, and then she bites the doctor's neck, this is really weird, and it's also unrealistic. Aki would have been killed instantly, there is no way her head would still be conscious.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The effects are well done, especially for a low budget film like this one.
 * 2) The song that plays during the end credits sounds good.



Reception
Derek Elley of Variety had a lukewarm response to Grotesque, offering kudos to aspects such as the acting and the production values, while criticizing others such as the inconsistent special effects, and opining that the "ridiculous" finale "blows any built-up tension and generates chuckles more than anything else". Horror News praised the film, opening its review with, "Grotesque is really a mix of emotions. Brilliant, disgusting, well written, sadistic and painful to your senses beyond belief" and concluding that it was "a solid effort" that deserves "an A for a great and outrageous ending"

This movie currently sits at a 4.7 rating on IMDb.

Trivia

 * This movie was rejected for release in the UK.