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Epicurus.com - Stacy
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List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $22.49
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Manufacturer: Synapse Video
Starring: Norman England, Tomoka Hayashi, YukijirĂ´ Hotaru, Natsuki Kato, ShirĂ´ Misawa
Directed By: Naoyuki Tomomatsu
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0654930302699
Format: Color
Label: Synapse Video
Manufacturer: Synapse Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Synapse Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-07-22
Running Time: 80
Studio: Synapse Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Reviews:
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In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, the girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a "pre-death" state of absolute bliss and joy. Once dead, girls come back as a flesh-eating zombie nicknamed "Stacy". The world is in chaos. Countries suffer from famine, war, and zero-population growth because of this teenage death epidemic. To keep the zombies from returning and eating innocent people, families are urged to kill their daughters before they are allowed to die by this mysterious disease (chopping them up and leaving them in garbage bags for govern-ment-sanctioned pick-up). In a Japanese military base, some undead schoolgirls are held and tested by a scientist who tries to unlock the secrets behind the girls return from the dead. Suddenly, the world turns upside down yet again as a soldier, in a fit of depression, lets the girls free to storm the base and devour anyone in their path. Based on the popular Japanese novel by Kenji Otsuki, Stacy is a bloodbath of extreme gore effects and comedy with elements of Resident Evil and George A. Romer's classic Day of the Dead.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent camp, but I expected more
Comment: STACY is chock-full-of EVIL DEAD references and other in-jokes, and features some wild gore scenes (although comicly done), but after years of waiting to see this I was expecting a bit more. Zombie completists will still want this for their collection. Fun, but a bit too corny for my taste.
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Summary: Classic Japanese!!
Comment: i have lived in Japan for awhile so when i watched this i knew what i was getting into. Believe or not, alot of japanese film makers want to make the viewers find the point of the movie or leave you wondering instead of handing the plot lines and meaning on a plate for you.
Yes the special effects are cheesy, and if you dont know jack about japanese culture you might as well grab a cup to put your money in for cursing cause you will be saying WTF, and WTF was that bleep bleep bleep....get my drift?
anyways i liked it. i understood the plot and the meaning. I gave it a 4 because thats typical japanese story development.
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Summary: A review from Zombiefans!
Comment: What a bizarre movie! While it has a lot of the "zombie movie" mainstays, it's oddly unique.
1) ACTING--while the acting wasn't incredible, it was passable. A few of the performances seemed forced, but the leads were okay.
2) ZOMBIES--the zombies are the typical "romero shamblers." The make up for the zombies was minimal, possible so the viewer could still see that "schoolgirls" were killing and eating people.
3) SPECIAL EFFECTS--WOW! The majority of the budget must have been spent of the blood and gore in this movie! The blood flows free in this one, and the gore is wonderfully over the top!
4) HOMAGES--the people behind this movie obviously love zombie movies and people like George Romero and Bruce Campbell. There are so many references to them in this movie, it almost becomes a game to try and figure out where some of the references are from!
Overall, not a bad movie. It's a fun little romp into zombieland, albeit a little strange and confusing.
3.5 out of 5
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Summary: Shot on tape
Comment: What a weird film.
Lots of gore. It reminded me of Re-animator at times, Japanese style. Maybe if it was made on a more serious note rather than such a campy style, it might make a good movie.
The fact that it was shot on tape didn't help it one bit either. I hate that.
And the theme... something must have definitely been lost in translation because I did not understand the point of this movie at all.
You take your chances on this one. I can't recommended it but neither can I trash it. Zombies. Japanese schoolgirls. Lots of blood and gore. Did I mention shot on tape?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant, Bizarre, Ahead of its Time
Comment: Most people probably won't like this movie. It is not for most people.
That said, if you love zombie movies, basement budget B-movies, gore, earnest sincerity by extremely socially inept characters, gore, strange concepts made stranger by surreal cinematic effects , creepy examinations of the intersection of sex, death, and innocence, and more gore, you might like this movie.
I'm not making any guarantees. The existential love story wrapped in zombie gore is not for everyone. But I cried the second or third time I watched it, which is unusual for me and any film. No one I've shown it to has reacted similarly - responses include laughter (my response, too, on first viewing), horror, annoyance, and boredom.
I was sold on the fashion chainsaws.
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