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Chainsaw Reviews The MASTERS OF HORROR Episode Showtime Will Not Colorcast!! Takashi Miike's IMPRINT!!

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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HAND THROUGH HEAD!!
by theoneofblood
Apr 7th, 2006
08:59:40 PM
Just in time to catch the replay
by John-Locke
Apr 7th, 2006
09:01:08 PM
Dang!!
by Banditmania
Apr 7th, 2006
09:08:31 PM
HERO did NOT invent that technique!!!
by Strabo
Apr 7th, 2006
09:33:31 PM
Fuckin' gum torture, man.
by Tubbs Tattsyrup
Apr 7th, 2006
09:34:38 PM
sounds like a winner
by Goatweed
Apr 7th, 2006
10:04:12 PM
Bare Hand Abortions!!!
by BurtGummer
Apr 7th, 2006
10:18:28 PM
Bare Hand Abortions, indeed!!
by ILK
Apr 7th, 2006
11:01:13 PM
What?
by Token37
Apr 7th, 2006
11:34:16 PM
I'll give the benefit of the doubt here...
by Harry Weinstein
Apr 7th, 2006
11:56:30 PM
I knew more about the episode before I began reading.
by Nate Champion
Apr 8th, 2006
12:57:29 AM
Oh would you knock off that "colorcast" bullshit!
by Horseflesh
Apr 8th, 2006
02:46:43 AM
Imprint now available on isohunt.com...if you dare!
by Zeke25:17
Apr 8th, 2006
03:19:05 AM
Showtime messed up by not releasing this on DVD first
by TheBaxter
Apr 8th, 2006
04:44:00 AM
That Pippin polystone figure scares me...
by NoLaw4000
Apr 8th, 2006
06:19:07 AM
it was not cool
by RealDoubleJ
Apr 8th, 2006
07:39:28 AM
It was ok
by Spikey
Apr 8th, 2006
08:12:50 AM
Imprint
by bondsan
Apr 8th, 2006
08:26:28 AM
Not bad for MOH, but in the world of Miike...
by pfizzle
Apr 8th, 2006
12:00:59 PM
I agree with strabo: RASHOMON! RASHOMON! RASHOMON!
by half vader
Apr 8th, 2006
12:20:12 PM
One Missed Call
by chickychow
Apr 8th, 2006
03:12:28 PM
because they're not related, chicky
by HypeEndsHere
Apr 8th, 2006
03:14:26 PM
The last paragraphs from my review online.
by The Reef
Apr 8th, 2006
04:10:29 PM
Not being colorcast?
by mrmgp
Apr 8th, 2006
07:00:19 PM
Herc
by Symposium
Apr 8th, 2006
07:04:28 PM
Ditto Symposium
by zacdilone
Apr 8th, 2006
07:19:55 PM
"JENIFER" was DOWNRIGHT AWFUL... ugh
by TheSeeker7
Apr 8th, 2006
09:19:51 PM
Yikes
by 9th Wonder
Apr 8th, 2006
11:24:50 PM
This is how to sell a DVD set
by ebolamonkey
Apr 8th, 2006
11:44:59 PM
Masters of Horror
by bondsan
Apr 9th, 2006
05:00:27 AM
whoa
by rabban
Apr 9th, 2006
07:52:10 AM
Yeesh, you're not missing anything...
by Call me Kenneth
Apr 9th, 2006
09:50:42 AM
Colorcast? WTF?
by Eyegore
Apr 9th, 2006
10:50:41 AM
A shame, since there was a decent story underneath
by Immortal_Fish
Apr 9th, 2006
11:31:26 AM
No the best performance was Michael Moriarty
by chickychow
Apr 9th, 2006
01:35:44 PM
sorry...Immortal_Fish miike is the shit!!!
by rabban
Apr 9th, 2006
05:24:27 PM
Imprint impressions (possible spoilers)
by Zeke25:17
Apr 10th, 2006
01:13:01 AM
Sorry about that garbled first line (?!?)
by Zeke25:17
Apr 10th, 2006
01:18:29 AM
Zeke25:17
by rabban
Apr 10th, 2006
05:38:41 AM
Mini-Review
by MKiro
Apr 10th, 2006
07:04:55 AM
i agree...sort of MKiro
by rabban
Apr 10th, 2006
08:19:49 AM
Preview on youtube
by cmcqueen02
Sep 15th, 2006
08:06:16 PM

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