Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (AKA The Japanese Evil Dead)

Product Information

Upon learning that his father was planning to demolish his old house in Tokyo, the budding filmmaker opted to utilize the location for his 8mm love letter to the Evil Dead trilogy. Die Handlung orientiert sich hier am großen Vorbild "Tanz der Teufel" und lässt auch etwas vom Haunted-House-Thema aus "Hausu" mit einfließen. The reason I wanted to make this movie was because I wanted to be like Bruce Cambpell’s Ash from The Evil Dead, and I wanted to kick zombies around like him.

Gory, campy, atmospheric, and funny, the film is nonstop excitement because it runs only a few minutes over an hour. Japan's answer to “The Evil Dead” which see’s a couple of paranormal investigators accompanied by the ex-boyfriend of one of them who make a bloody mess of a creepy Tokyo house with a murderous past as they provoke the wrath of a jealous vengeful spirit. So here we have “the Japanese Evil Dead”, a solid movie for the genre, it looks too dumb and also too brilliant at the same time. There is a feeling that the film is trying to be sillier than it manages to be, especially with the overuse of blood, which looks more like tomato purée than anything that could come out of a human being.

However, that doesn’t stop a cop on the cusp of retirement and a slew of paranormal experts from trying to get to the bottom of a series of bizarre activities plaguing a Buenos Aires neighborhood.

The host has rigged fake scares to spook his team for the sake of ratings, but they prove unnecessary thanks to the sinister forces haunting the place. What I find interesting about Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell is that it was originally filmed in the nineties, but took years to actually be completed, and released.

The set-up and iconography are instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with the Evil Dead franchise but would otherwise play as nonsensical. Apart from a nice slipcase and artwork, the highlight for many people will be the humorous commentary track by Adam Green and Joe Lynch. Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell markets itself as "The Japanese Evil Dead," and the influence couldn't be more obvious.

They invade like a viral infection via technology, plunging the globe into hopeless despair and death. She’d warned them not to come, and it doesn’t take long to figure out why; an evil presence has taken root on the family’s rural land, and it wants them all.The film is light on story and has a very small cast with a minuscule budget that took a number of years to complete with filming starting in 1995. After a basic opening scene that sets the scene by depicting the murder of a young woman in a basement, the film takes a little while to get going again as we meet the titular character and get the excuse to go back to the house, where all hell breaks loose pretty quickly. While the spectral encounters bring the frights, Pulse has a way of wielding its existential horror that cuts straight to the bone. Horror fans will enjoy the old-school special effects and cringe at some of the really bad ones, but that is the fun of “so bad they’re good” movies.

The shaky claustrophobic POV camerawork, the dismemberment aftermath twitching gag, the big push-in and "groovy! While the film was just recently released, it was actually filmed way back in 1995, so that genuine grainy old school look really IS genuine, as are the classic mix of cheesy and cool practical effects. Gedreht wurde "Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell" auf Super-8, was der Optik zwar einen Retro-Touch verleiht, aber die Qualität leider auf unterem VHS-Niveau mit grieseligem Bild ansiedelt. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Its first international release came from the UK in 2017, and it has finally made its way to the US in 2022. Running an economical 63 minutes, the first two thirds of Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell adopt the more straightforward horror tone of The Evil Dead, while the finale goes full-bore into Evil Dead 2‘s splatstick territory — including rudimentary optical effects, lo-fi stop-motion animation, and a fight with disembodied appendages that gives credence to the otherwise forgotten “Body Builder” part of the title. Alternately known as "The Japanese Evil Dead," this legendary, sought after independent Japanese cult film will enjoy its first ever North American release in any format and features new bonus content. When he’s given three unsolvable case files, he embarks on a journey that shakes his cynicism to its core. The situation is set up to give a ghost, and to get the cannon-fodder heroes into the house, and then let the death and the destruction commence.