Grotesque (2009)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Grotesque
Original title グ ロ テ ス ク ( Gurotesuku )
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2009
length 73 minutes
Age rating FSK no marking, indexed (List B)
Rod
Director Kōji Shiraishi
script Kōji Shiraishi
production Kazue Udagawa
Kyōsuke Ueno
music Kazuo Satō
camera Yōhei Fukuda
cut Tsuyoshi Sone
occupation

Grotesque ( Japanese グ ロ テ ス ク , Gurotesuku ) is a Japanese horror or splatter film from 2009. Directed by Kōji Shiraishi, who also wrote the screenplay.

action

As Aki and her companion Kazuo go through a kind of tunnel, a stranger gets out of his car and hits them on the head with a hammer. The man who knocked them out is the doctor whose name is not mentioned. Aki and Kazuo wake up in a basement room and are tied up and gagged on a kind of adjustable table . After wild attempts to tear himself away, the doctor stabs Kazuo in the throat with a spear and then in the side of the body. When the tormentor grabs him in the wound on the side of the body, Kazuo vomits despite the gag. There follows a flashback in which Aki and Kazuo have a rendezvous as work colleagues and are then overpowered by the doctor in the tunnel from the opening scene. After the flashback, the doctor, who probably left briefly beforehand, comes into the basement, turns on classical music and makes himself comfortable. Thereupon he announces the two of them death, but promises: if they manage to arouse the doctor with their will to survive, he will release the victims. It follows that the tormentor exposes the two around the genital area and cuts through Aki's bra . The doctor then grabs Aki and Kazuo's genitals until they climax. Then the doctor removes the gag from both of them and says that they can only answer his questions. Kazuo talks anyway, is tortured and he and Aki get chloroform pressed on their noses. Later they wake up in a horizontal position and the doctor saws off the fingers from Kazuo's hands, threads them on a wire and ties it as a chain and - as the doctor says - as a "gift from Kazuo" around Aki's neck. Then the tormentor does the same to Aki. When he wants to saw off the fingers of the others, Aki speaks briefly and the doctor punishes her by cutting off her nipples and her right arm. After that, Aki also gets a chain with his fingers from Kazuo. The torture continues with the doctor poking Kazuo's eye out, driving Kazuo's nails through his testicles, and cutting off his penis. When the doctor did the latter, he said he was aroused. Shortly thereafter, Aki and Kazuo are in a hospital room in the doctor's basement. When he enters the room, he promises his victims as a thank you to take care of them and to release them. This also happens briefly, but later the mutilated victims are tied up again and the agony continues, as the doctor pulls out Kazuo's intestines through an incision near the anus, hangs it on a hook and orders Kazuo to run to Aki, who is not tied far facing. When he struggles to do this, as part of the task he is asked to take a pair of scissors and cut Aki loose. He doesn't quite succeed and he falls to the ground, apparently dead. Aki is now supposed to be killed, too, but Aki throws insults at her tormentor. The doctor then saws her stomach and chops off her head with an ax. Aki's head bites the doctor in the neck when the head that has just been chopped off flies into the air and tries to fall to the ground. This falls to the ground and the almost dead Kazuo stabs him in the wound with a sharp object. In the final scene you can see the doctor at the graves of Aki and Kazuo. Then you can see him ambushing a woman.

Reactions

The film has been criticized primarily for its brutality. In Germany it was indexed on List B, in Great Britain it was confiscated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Grotesque" - Against Human Dignity , on: flimmerblog.de (June 6, 2009)
  2. ↑ British forbid "Grotesque" , on: screenread.de (25 August 2009)