Wednesday, November 20, 2013

NYCC 2013: Unsamurai Undeeper Gyo underperforms

The film starts with an interesting premise: Male Protagonist canceled to go to see loved one because of hydrophobia; something that really could have been touched upon in this anime movie. Really starting to build up the intimidating horror look of the film. The exploration of sound could have made this a classic with a decent sound engineer, as Tadashi mentions the sound of cicadas and its dad death, turning it into a horror classic a la Jaws or Psycho.
The film has a seemingly interesting premise seemingly similar to the Thing, where a germish attack on Earth seems to become unstoppable, preying on people's medicinal fears.
An interesting part of the film slightly explored is that people do fear eating fish, because of the smell. Hydrophobes probably dislike oceans and their salty smell associated and learned from their experiences with them.

The film then unorthodoxly goes G rated with a skit with the main female protagonists not seeing the fish walking all over the place. It becomes later dramatic. The original intent of the movie becoming that it forms intent is to be a dark comedy after all, a la ScreamThe Natural Born Killers eye censors support this idea after the fish premise.
Again, there's a lot of exposition in what should have been a standard horror B-movie. Not a lot of scary imagery or direction, which the horror genre is known for. I guess it is more of a Z-movie comedy. What they went for. Polarized what I enjoyed from the manga at least.

The details:
Lesbian jokes are a little distasteful,  But again this is not a classic. Aki's actresses performance is really good, but the disdain for Eriko just seems to come out of nowhere. Eriko's turning into a fat ugly character, is in poor taste again.
There is also an awesome poorly animated crash
Apple mouth pic

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