Girls Mutant Squad
                        
Director:  Various
Year: 2010
Rating: 7.0
The Japanese have a term for every film genre and sub-genre and sub-sub-genre, so there must be one for these totally over the top gore fests. Perhaps there are films from other nations that are similar to these but if so, I have never come across it. This is so absurdly bloody with heads flying off, other limbs being detached, heads split into three with blood spraying like an endless fountain, that it has to be meant as a comedy. At least I hope so because it sure struck me as funny. I don't want to think that I am some sick bastard laughing at exploding heads and severed arms. Or a tentacle piercing the groin and coming out of the mouth. I can't even watch films like Saw - but this was a blast because it reaches for stupid and goes way beyond it. You just keep waiting to see how far the filmmakers will keep pushing the boundary of idiocy, splatter and bad taste. Some others in this sub-genre that I will call for convenience sake - Gore Comedy - are The Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, One Chanbara and Bloody Chainsaw Girl.



It's Rin's 16th birthday and her parents promise her a celebration that night and then send her off to school - but a worried look passes between them. For good reason. Rin (Yumi Sugumoto) isn't feeling well - her arm has been hurting. At school she is dreadfully bullied by the Mean Girls who make fun of her and knock her down the stairs. She wakes up in a doctor's office and overhears her on the phone calling for the police to come get Rin and tries to give her a sedative and an evil smile. Rin pushes her aside and escapes home - mom, dad what is going on? Father says let me show you something and unbuttons his shirt - he has two creatures where his nipples should be - think total Recall but two of them. Maybe three, I think his penis is one as well. I am a mutant and so are you. On your 16th birthday your "treasure" will reveal itself. In her case her hand turns into a deadly sharp metal weapon that can slice and dice with the best of them. The Anti-Mutant Squad show up - kill mom - and decapitate dad whose head ends up on the birthday cake. Rin learns fast though and cuts through them like soft buttered buns.



The whole neighborhood comes after her with anything they can pick up that kills. She has no choice but to make sashimi out of all of them. She is like John Wick except with a metal claw killing them by the bunches. Each one bloody and disgusting. And funny.  She hooks up with HILKO - a group of girl mutants who band together to protect themselves and kill humans. They have an assortment of skills. One has a chainsaw come out of her ass, another has spears pop out of her breasts. The cute Yoshie (Suzuka Morita) in her nurse's outfit has tentacles when she needs them. Rei (Yuko Takayama) can form armor around her that cuts through anything.  All three are not surprisingly very attractive. Heading the group is a transexual Kasagari (Tak Sakaguchi) who later turns into a giant crab like creature. It is divided into three chapters, all directed by a different person - Tak, Noboru Iguchi (Machine Girl, RoboGeisha) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police). Not for those who like crumpets and weak tea.