Ooru naito rongu 2

All Night Long 2 (1995) is the second film of the dark and depraved All Night Long trilogy. If you thought the first film was nasty and it couldn't get any sicker, well it has. This time the movie was shot on video giving it an even more feel of realism, it's like watching a snuff film (if those things really existed). Gutter level horror film making at it's best.

A young Japanese student is having a hard time making friends. But he finds one on the internet. But he finds out that the person is not what he seems to be. The poor kid is tormented by the gang of homicidal nut cases and drive him up the wall. Can the kid protect himself and fend of the gang of sadistic sickos or will he fall into the same hole of depravity that the rest of them have fallen into?

Why are these films made? Who knows but if shocking the hell out of the viewers and being as twisted and insane as you want to be is the golden rule then it has succeeded on all levels. The trilogy ends with a film that is so insane I had a hard time finishing it.

Rated X and it shows.

Recommended for fans of the genre. Others need not apply.

ATROCITY- the second installment in the ALL NIGHT LONG trilogy is better on every level than the previous installment. It has the same basic premise of an outcast/nerd thrown into a situation beyond his control - but ATROCITY takes it to the next level. A nerdy high-schooler is bullied by a gang of small-time hoods. The gay leader of the gang takes a "special" interest in the poor dork, and shows him how much fun it can be to be the aggressor for a change. The gang keeps bullying the kid and some new-found friends until he can no longer take it, and flips the f**k out. The requisite murder and mayhem ensue... ATROCITY is gorier, grittier and more "shocking" than Part 1 of the trilogy. It can still be a little slow moving at times, but not nearly as much as Part 1. Once it gets going, the red stuff really flies and by the end it's pretty much an all-out bloodbath. If you bought the set and were disappointed with Part 1 - don't give up yet, ATROCITY and THE FINAL CHAPTER (part 3) are better and definitely worth a look. ATROCITY is probably the bloodiest of the 3, but THE FINAL CHAPTER is the most whacked-out, and definitely keeps up in the gore race. Recommended 8/10

The second part of the ALL NIGHT LONG trilogy is a truly Sadean film. Every character is subjected to appalling humiliation and torture, inflicted for the gratification of the torturers. The only comparable Western picture is SALO O LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA. But where Pier Paolo Pasolini's movie is a political allegory, writer-director Katsuya Matsumura focuses on his characters. He's interested in what drives them, why some are predators and others victims, and how certain victims ultimately become predators.

A gang's protection racket victimizes a high-school student with whom the gang leader becomes obsessed. The leader makes every effort to seduce the

student. When his advances are rebuffed, the leader tries to force the student into acts of degradation and violence. The student's friends are also captured and brutalized. The leader's efforts are finally successful: the student becomes every bit as savage as his tormentors.

ALL NIGHT LONG 2 is exceptionally graphic, with explicit and realistic depictions of every outrage, but what makes the movie so disturbing is the believability of the characters. All of the cast delivers powerful and convincing performances, although many of them (like most of the technical crew) didn't allow their real names to be used in the credits.

Certainly not for all audiences, OORU NAITO RONGU 2: SANJI is nonetheless seriously-intentioned, and amongst the most effective studies ever of the darkest recesses of humanity.

This film is extremely similar to a hardcore porn: scanty set decoration (80 % of "Atrocity" takes place in a lonely appartement...) and a thin plot. And as a porn movie jumps from one sex scene to the next this flick does the same with gore. Nevertheless the second installment of the gruesome "All Night long"-series is quite worth watching, because the characters are all well-developed and if you like extreme cinema and you´ve nerves of steel will surely have fun with it. Similar to "I Spit on your Grave" there´s no music brought on to make the shocking scenes of brutal rape and killing even more disturbing! If you´re into mainstream horror: stay far far away!!! However, if you like extreme sickos: check this out as soon as possible!!!

Internet nerd Shun'ichi Noda (Masashi Endô) owes a large sum of money to a violent gang of teenage thugs led by a sadistic homosexual with romantic designs on the poor debtor. Shun'ichi sees a possible way out of his awkward predicament when a stranger on an on-line message board offers to help him, but after arranging a real-world meeting he discovers that, along with two other equally gullible suckers, he has been the victim of a practical joke.

All is not lost, however, and Shun'ichi strikes up a friendship with his fellow victims, who listen to his tale of woe and think that they might be able to raise the cash. The guys go back to Shun'ichi's home to chill out, and are later joined by girl-friend Sayaka (Ryôka Yuzuki). Unfortunately for Shun'ichi, his persecutors also turn up, abduct him and his new friends, and subject them all to a sickening ordeal that pushes the poor chap over the edge.

I'd read that All Night Long 2: Atrocity was an even more harrowing viewing experience than its predecessor, but while it's certainly not Disney, being as downbeat and nihilistic as possible in tone, the film is surprisingly short on protracted scenes of explicit nastiness, its atrocities frequently and rather frustratingly left to the imagination, the camera cutting to the aftermath rather than showing the nitty-gritty.

The most notable examples of this are a bedroom assault on pretty Sayaka that makes a mess of the sheets but which leaves the viewer to fill in the blanks, and the torture of one poor character by a knife-wielding sadist that results in loads of nasty wounds, none of which are shown being inflicted. Given the film's reputation as a brutal shocker, and knowing just how far Japanese cinema is willing to go when it comes to gory torture, I have to admit that I found this approach rather disappointing.

Matters improve briefly when the victims start to fight back against their tormentors, the violence becoming a bit more in your face, with some gnarly baseball bat, samurai sword and blowtorch action leaving a room strewn with bodies and drenched with blood; sadly, the film returns to its original, less explicit approach for its finale, in which Shun'ichi, his mind twisted by what he has seen, goes on to kill his friends (and a rodent for good measure) while the camera lingers elsewhere.

Oh well, maybe All Night Long 3 will do the trick...