The Machine Girl: Eat your heart out, Tarantino.
[simage=116,288,n,right]The Machine Girl is a Japanese B-movie slasher-thriller that operates on a very simple premise. That premise is that Sam Raimi would’ve had the perfect movie with Army of Darkness if he were only willing to include enough gore and utilize enough fake blood.
Basically, with no explanation why, we’re transported into a weird suburban-Japanese, Lord of the Flies-style abandoned overpass where we discover that a couple of kids owe a bunch of money to some kid whose dad is yakuza. Obviously, this kid is somewhat of a jerk and kills them, and eventually one of the victim’s sisters has to avenge him by killing every last member of the yakuza with a combination of a homemade Gatling gun and a chainsaw, but not before going through the requisite struggles necessary to become a bad-ass hero (no spoilers, but there is a montage). This is the movie Quentin Tarantino tried to make with Grindhouse, but it’s no-holds-barred, and it doesn’t stop to poke fun at itself because it’s pure, unspoiled, stupid fun. And of course, like any other movie I review, it’s on Netflix instant viewing right now.
(3.7/5)
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