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Chainsaw Reviews The MASTERS OF HORROR Episode Showtime Will Not Colorcast!! Takashi Miike's IMPRINT!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
Takashi Miike made an episode of “Masters of Horror” titled “Imprint” - but it freaked Showtime out, and we Americans will have to wait a few months before it’s issued on region-one DVD.
But the Bravo Channel in the U.K. didn’t puss out, and colorcast it tonight in all its bloody glory. “Chainsaw” has a review.
WOW, Takashi Miike leaves a further "Imprint" on my brain. I for one was affected quite a bit by Audition but felt it was a masterpiece of light and darkness be it with a loose wire here and there.
Harry if you use this call me Chainsaw, I just found some fuel, the saw is operational and the blood is VERY RED!!!
So we hear stories from the US about Showtime not airing this particular episode from our good friend Miike. So we think ahh what a bunch of pussies... I mean how bad can it be it was made for bloody TV... So tired though I am with the haunting of Audition peering out from my left pussy ocular, I sit down to watch Bravo UK and all that is Takashi.
Those not wishing to read spoilers you may leave your shoes at the door right there, for the rest c'mon in the sake is warm and bloody. I don't want to spoil the story but to summarize Billy Drago plays a man searching for his "long lost" girlfriend using clues in what seems like a stage in the old east, that being where Ninja's rule the earth and Darth V@d@r lies dead with a shuriken star sticking out his voice box. A clue brings Drago to a desolate island and we begin the Takashi nightmare with a floating bloated corpse, that aint just fog in the air...
Drago finds himself in a whorehouse and the night air brings a meeting with a young girl who definitely stands out with a smile. You see Drago's old girlfriend happened to chance upon this island and befriended this young girl who works there spreading more than her butter on toast. She tells the girl how she is waiting for Drago as he promised to find her and take her back to America ala Air Support. So the young girl recounts two versions of the same story with a bit of a nod to Hero style scriptwriting and end up with a nasty twisted affair that would you believe shocked me. Yes me the lover of blood and gore, and Cannibal Holocaust still the most shocking movie ever to burn the retinas out of my eyes.
We have shock torture via pins under fingernails and through gums, abortion country style using bare hands, bloody aborts heading downstream, and a twin sister who should just stay hidden.
That's it I have spoilt it enough but will sum up by saying SEE THIS EPISODE, I LOVED IT. Bloody, Messy and Disturbing just like my coffee.
I have a feeling the force will be strong with this one on the torrenty streams of the big bad internet. The demand will be high for this episode be it as 1's and 0's streaming into your PC, or the preferred and legal way via uncut DVD.
Thanks Takashi, as usual you don't disappoint, like a mallet to the head. If this does not make any sense I am not surprised, it is the wee hours of the morning as I type...
The fuel runs out, the saw grinds to a halt, the drip of blood to the floor is the only sound to be left...
Chainsaw
Even we lowly Americans can watch the “Imprint” promo here.
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Too bad I live in Australia and have to wait for a freaking YEAR to see this.
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Thanks for the heads up, it's already made me jump.
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Lucky Brits.
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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. Rashomon invented the technique of telling the story multiple times through different points of view with elements of truth and untruth in each. GET IT RIGHT. EVERYONE rips Kurosawa off, and rarely gives him the credit he deserves. For this fucking site, I expect better. Fuck. I'm not bitter.
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It creeps me out.
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who's got a torrent link?
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I'm there!
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You don't really "earn" an abortion unless it's done that way. (ok, I know that even though I'm an athiest, I have just now invoked into existance an alternate universe with a special hell just for me)
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I understood maybe a third of that review. His coffee's disturbing? What? I mean really; i'm incredibly eager to see this, but maybe something somewhat coherent could be strained from this so i actually knew what i was eager to see (besides miike at the helm).
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...nah, fuck it, I won't. That review was completely incoherent and it gave me a headache. It made me long for Harry Knowles's calm and formal grasp of the workings of the English language. I'm going to feed it to the speech synthesizer on my computer and see if it damages anything. By which I mean my brain.
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Seriously, is this the best review you can turn up? Talk about a mallet to the head.
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Jesus Fucking Cancer!
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Moriarty happened to give a rather humorous heads-up on the Horror Channel's web page as to exactly what Imprint contains: I doubt I would buy the dvd when it's released, but morbid curiosity compels me to at least look at it. The more I hear about it, the more I think, believe it or not, Showtime was right to pass on it. If the country can get in a tizzy about a breast being exposed on TV for a third of a second (supposedly this was all in the name of "protecting the children", remember; and you gotta figger more kids would watch Showtime than the Super Bowl)...how apoplectic do you think THIS would make the yahoos out there?
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Showtime, or whoever is responsible for the DVDs, should have released this as the first MOH DVD, instead of cig burns and witch house. ever since they decided not to air it, this episode has had more buzz than all the rest combined. they could have sold a ton if they released the DVD now, but with it available for download all over the place, that demand will be sapped by the time it finally IS released.
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Looks like Eric Idle is being raped in the cornhole...
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to be fair, it should of stayed banned. That is all I have to say about that.
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As a piece of film making it was just ok. It was sort of like a retread of Audition with absolutely nothing happening in the first half and then the torture begins. The reason it was unshown was obviously because of Miikes tendency for the big no-no of sexual violence against women, like the nipple cutting scene in Iichi. The violence was quite well done tho and i found myself covering my mouth and wincing a few times.
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Just watched it. What a thorough pile of shite. How any film maker with one ounce of sense can even think about casting Billy Drago as the main lead is just beyond criticism. I've seen more acting skills and personality in a whelk. He was ok in The Hills Have Eyes, probably because he kept his gob shut
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...it was just another notch on his belt. It's no Bird People in China, but then again not much else is...
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God almighty. If the twit didn't embarrass himself enough trying to impress us with his writing prowess he goes and throws that Hero reference in revealing both his tender age and lamentable myopia. Oh God! I think it's catching!
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Just saw this Miike offering, a tame (for him) entry into the J-horror genre. Not bad for what's basically a "mainstream" ghost-girl flick. For anyone who's seen it, obviously the 2nd act, with the televised death, is the highlight and really should've been the bulk of the movie... anyway, why is it that UK Bravo shows Imprint, and US Bravo gives us Blowdry and Queer Eye?
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unfortunately for us, NBC (universal/vivendi) owns Bravo.
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This in undoubtedly the best constructed of the episodes, and has the most extreme imagery of the entire series. However, as frightening as all this imagery is, it is let down by two things that were fundamental to the story, and the impact it has on the viewer. Firstly the actor playing the American (Billy Drago) is wooden and flat, the emotions he is attempting to convey do not come across and we have no real sense of his anguish, or determination to find out the truth. Secondly, the prostitutes twin is a laughable prosthetic, the grin is goofy and the overall appearance of the face is almost cartoonish. A more twisted visage, realistically using the anatomy provided, would have been far more chilling, two fingers and an embedded eye in a lump of protruding skull, just enough to suggest a larger entity struggling beneath would have been more in keeping with the piece. I know of which I speak as far as these kinds of things are concerned, but please do not ask me to explain.
As far as the censorship in the US is concerned, I completely agree that a moral minority in the Bible belt would have seized on this and prevented us from getting a second series. The foetal imagery (taken out of context of course) would have been the basis for a badly constructed argument against the freedom of writers and filmmakers to express themselves, never mind that the writer (Shimako Iwai - screenplay adapted from his own novel) and director (Takashi Miike) are Japanese.
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Maybe they're showing it in black and white? Fucking slang.
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We don't "colorcast" in the U.K. for two reasons. 1, It's spelt Colour over here. 2, We don't try and sound cool when talking about airing a tv show.
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"Colour" just looks classier anyway. And using "colorcast," rather than becoming a trademark, is quickly becoming ridiculous.
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I've DL'd and watched "Homecoming" and "Jenifer" so far, and disliked both. I agreed with "Homecoming"'s message, just thought the satire was so over the top and silly that it hurt it overall. But good lord.... "JENIFER".... that's 50 minutes of my life that I'll never fucking have back. This was awful in so many ways I don't even know where to begin. That the Steven Weber character keeps inexplicably sticking by this girl's side despite the horrifying things she keeps doing, and for fucks sake, I knew exactly how the ending would play out after about 20 minutes into it. OBVIOUS.
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As if anyone would really be uspset they missed out, but that torture scene where the girl pisses on herself after being hung upside down is really stuck in my head now. Yeah, it's funny, but maybe just a bit sad that I find it so. -
Showtime didn't "wuss out" - please. This is no different than the ubiquitous "unrated director's cut". Now they have my attention, and probably yours as well. Whether you want to rent it or buy it, more sales of the set.
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This series has been, by and large, dreadful, and I have seen all 13 episodes. I loved Carpenter's tale and I enjoyed the atmosphere of Coscarelli's episode. I also thought that DeerWoman was a nearly perfect blend of comedy and horror, with a terrific performance from Brian Benben. However there are a few things that seriously fucking tainted the series as a whole. Tobe Hooper, Jesus, I wouldn't allow that man anywhere near a camera ever again. What a pile of unmitigated shite.
What the hell was Michael Moriarty doing. I felt embarrassed for the man.
Argento really has lost the plot. He wouldn't know horror if it was wrapped around a housebrick and it fell on his head. I'm not surprised that he has put The Three Mothers off for all of these years. Cos when he fucks that up he really will be the exposed as the fraud who's whole career is on the back of a largely uncredited Daria Nicolodi.
Garris, Malone and Cohen's tales were perfect lessons in mediocrity.
All in all I cannot believe what a perfect opportunity has been wasted. Freedom from the censors, a reasonable budget and more than a modicum of talent and all that we have to show apart from a couple of exceptions are half a dozen gore scenes. Quite frankly I expected a lot more.
Another site posted an April fools article last week that Uwe Boll had been signed up for the next series. Is that so bad. Could he really turn out anything as bad as some of what we've already had.
Eli Roth is doing a tale in the next series. A Master of Horror - have a word with yourself!
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bondsan...i'd almost agree with you if it weren't for all the name calling.
i mean the show is obviously not a perfect opportunity wasted because of "the Freedom from the censors" because miike's film was censored lol......but seriously the making of a movie is more then just the director's responsibility. i liked Coscarelli's and carpenter's stuff but how often do these guys get to express this much creative freedom? i considered Tobe Hooper's short to be great on the sicko level...i mean robert englund is making a zombie give him oral sex!!!...what i did not like in Hooper's short was the editing of it. but yeah there are some weak episodes...the tale of witch house felt like it was ripping off of evil dead for some reason...and homecoming was just plain laughable even though the idea's and events kicked ass! -
Good gravy! Masters of Horror? Masters of Tedium, more like. Laughable acting ("I *DON'T* want to know -- I need to *KNOW*!"), dodgy direction and amateur everything else, every single episode is 60 minutes too long. All that's missing are talking heads from the directors to say how far ahead of their time they are. Has no one in America seen "Garth Merenghi's Dark Place"!? (Go seek out the torrents, you fools!)
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I could see this word possibly being used (by the mentally challenged) back in the 1950's, when broadcasting something in color was some kind of event. Now though, it's just moronic, particularly since it's color / B&W status isn't even in question. Put this silly word away forever please.
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If you like lots of disgusting visuals in your horror then you'll like this. However, if you like your horror to be scary on some level then you won't find it here. Taking a cue from TB's on this website, this is the third flick I've tried from Miike and the guy has disappointed me every time. Dementia and gore appear to be all the man is capable of conveying in his films. I can enjoy a good visual when used appropriately, and Miike sure is inventive as far as that is concerned. Yet stringing together a bunch of inventive gore scenes isn't all that is required to tell a good horror story. In fact, the man goes so far overboard with shocking visuals that he often gets in the way of his own story. Sorry, gang. Miike ain't no Argento or Fulci. Maybe some day.
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You've got to admit you've never seen anything quite like whatever the fuck he was doing in that wacky episode.
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audition was a great flick...name some good american horror movies you enjoyed and you will find them extremely dated by todays special effects standards...and extremely censored by producers...miike is not a one trick pony either...of the flicks of his that i have seen not all are easy to consider as horror flicks but are rather...uncensored action movies...like izo or fudoh...yes crazy violent stuff is what he likes to do but the man is a auteur...thats like saying quentin tarantino is only capable of making long drawn out speeches...
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Exotic, horrifbeautiful in parts, repulsive in ying, strangely others...all in all, one you're not likely to forget. Youki Kudoh (the whore who tells the stories to Drago's character) has a lovely voice that can go from sexy to scary in a second; her performance is terrific...you just can't help but wonder what these actresses were thinking as they were put through their paces, especially poor Michie (Komomo), who gets turned into a human pincushion. Maybe it just seems weird to an American viewer; perhaps this sort of thing is perfectly ordinary to someone born and raised in Japan, but it's hard to believe the director calls cut and everyone just goes back to laughing and chatting like normal, even the poor girl splayed on the ground for all to see. Maybe it's because, brutal and nasty as our horror films can be, we're not as big on torture scenes as opposed to the big, gruesome kill. Maybe dead fetuses, or the corpse of a pregnant woman floating in a river, are common in Japanese horror. Maybe all or none of these reasons were why Showime chose not to air it. I think the only way they COULD have done it were if it had been the last episode--not of the season, but of the show itself, because nothing, really, could follow it! Regarding Drago's performance: I'm guessing he was cast for appearance alone; he has a striking face, sort of an anti-Bill (David Carradine, that is); and he succeeds best when he speaks in a hushed whisper...it's when he starts over-emoting that he loses me. At best, he looks like someone who is damned to hell, knows it, and just needs the confirmation...which, it seems, the strange demon-whore gives him. Having said that, the ending makes it clear that he is haunted by two ghosts...are we then to conclude that he really did kill Komomo, and his little sister back in America as well? Did he, in fact, molest HIS sister (similar to what happens in the whore's story), and then kill her? Why does he see a fetus in the water pail in his cell? Was HE an abortionist back home, or what? I do hope that when this is released to dvd, Miike addresses a few of these questions; as it is, the story does indeed leave an imprint, but the ending seems a bit too ambiguous. "Have I got your attention, Mister?" Indeed you have, Youki. Indeed you have.
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It should read "Exotic, horrifying, strangely beautiful in parts and repulsive in others..." Assuming of course anyone actually read it!
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he said he was a journalist...and it was hinted at that he did something wrong to his sister...what i wonder about is the ending...after the credits and after the headshot i think it was obviously guilt that made him snap.
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I enjoyed Ichi The Killer and so had high hopes for this, after watching all of the other MOH series and believeing that without exception, each episode was truly dreadful. Not Uwe Bolle dreadful, but cheap, over-acted, badly-written, poorly-directed dreadful. The self-indulgent Cigaretter Burns being the worst culprit and the Witches House one the most passable (despite the stupid human-faced rat). So, that's where I'm coming from. The question is, did 'Imprint' redeem the series?
Answer: No. Not remotely. It did however, give us the best episode, which is faint praise at best. Horror is not a word I would use to describe this bad-taste exploitative drivel. Sure, many people can talk about 'art' or 'meaning', but at the end of the day it was trash. The sick effects are merely Stunts to try and grab the viewer's attention and create a discussion point for tomorrow's water cooler. Take away the shock tactics of this movie and you are left with a pretty insipid plot and badly-told story. -
the best horror is the most serious...hellraiser...exorcist...irreversible... these movies are the stuff that is truely horrific...i think that kind of horror that expresses the spiritual suffering of it's characters and then shows you the choice that involves the pain of life and the destruction of life in as much uglyness as possible is what makes good horror...i'd describe MOH as showtime's version of tales from the crypt...it's campy and they know it they just think they could spoon feed it to us as something mature... i'm kinda glad they did it at all...but they obviously are to chicken shit to allow it to become a meaningful series...i still can't understand why they got rid of "dead like me"...the show was always good it was simply placed at a horrible time slot...11:00 pm? geez the show would be perfect at a 9:00 time frame...what's so funny to me is that it seems like movie producers blame directors but it sounds like they are ignoring their part in the chain of events...rob zombie wrote and was willing to direct a crow movie...but some producer said no to it...WTF were you thinking ya pussy?...and instead out came the crow: wicked prayer...a direct to video so awful the combined might of dennis hopper and danny trejo could not save it...switching off rant mode off.
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This is my favorite DVD of the series. If you haven't seen it or just want to see one the best parts of the film, follow this link to youtube and view the preview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM7fhWeersI
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