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Brutal

  • 2017
  • 1h 7m
IMDb RATING
4.6/10
516
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Brutal (2017)
Horror

A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. They are willing to kill everyone to find th... Read allA savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. They are willing to kill everyone to find that special someone.A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. They are willing to kill everyone to find that special someone.

  • Director
    • Takashi Hirose
  • Writer
    • Takashi Hirose
  • Stars
    • Asami
    • Katrina Grey
    • Shigeo Ôsako
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.6/10
    516
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Takashi Hirose
    • Writer
      • Takashi Hirose
    • Stars
      • Asami
      • Katrina Grey
      • Shigeo Ôsako
    • 11User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Asami
    Asami
    Katrina Grey
    • Anna
    Shigeo Ôsako
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    Iona
    Shinsuke Kato
    Shinsuke Kato
    Ayano
    • Woman
    Takashi Nishina
    • Ryuhei
    Nanako Ohata
    Yukihiro Haruzono
    Yukino Arimoto
    Momoko Katô
    Rina Kadô
    Takaaki Satô
    Naho Nakashima
    Ayumi Mizukoshi
    Butch
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      • Takashi Hirose
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    5kannibalcorpsegrinder

    Unflinching and brutal serial killer romance

    Conducting a rampage of extreme prejudice, a savage killer targets women as he tries to find a compatible woman to engage his fantasies in, eventually catching the eye of a female serial killer who's just as sadistic as he is forcing them into a deadly and dangerous showdown.

    Overall, this was an exceptionally enjoyable piece of exploitation sleaze. This is one of the strongest aspects of the film and is given to us immediately at the outset of the film, which is the exceptionally brutal and challenging murder scene of the killer targeting several victims and graphically tortures them in wholly demented fashion as his rants about his intentions go unheeded. Its unflinching mentality makes for a truly immersive experience the first thing you see in a film, and to see how he carries out his work cleaning up after himself in the bloodstained aftermath immediately afterward tells a lot about his psychotic nature. That brutality is carried over and rightly topped by us following the woman around. Arguably going for a more brutal approach with her frenzied and relentless stabbing that's generally targeted at their private regions, the montage that opens her story offers us an even stronger glance at what to expect within here the focus on both disparate people come together is the focus here. The final confrontation that occurs, a full-on hard-hitting brawl with each other smashing objects, pummeling and cutting each other or stabbing the other, is an exceptionally tough and brutal sequence to get through as they lay into each with a rawness that's incredibly vicious and realistic long before it unveils the savage twist for their physical beings. This is all truly fun if not enough to overcome its minor flaws. The film's biggest issue is the fact that there's just so little info that the film simply feels short. While the idea is surprisingly effective in how it's realized, the lack of depth into each individual manages to somewhat undo the idea that each person is mentally deranged. There's something to be said for how two individuals come together, but the way it's handled here where they just come together as a stroke of luck rather than being drawn together due to one picking up the other to continue their individual rampages and then discovering what the other does for a living just comes off as a sloppy mechanism. As well as some questionable tactics designed to get a misguided attempt at nostalgia that's just distracting, there's not much else really wrong here.

    Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.
    1eduvini-93173

    I didn't understand

    Basically the movie is very confusing. The acting is very poor, the gratuitous violence is kinda bad, the movie soundtrack is also good for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, sometimes it reminds you of a weird Devil May Cry. Besides that, characters psychology are not even close to a serial killer. Everything is bad.
    7killercharm

    21st Century Grindhouse

    Slasher with the difference being that there is a male and a female slasher who meet and slash away at each other until they learn the impetus for their deviance is their mutual genital mutilation which look too real to be disbelieved. I still can't get over it. This is indeed a brutal movie. I almost didn't watch all the way through but I'm so glad I did. It's original and cinema art.
    3BA_Harrison

    Dull and repetitive.

    A chubby misogynistic serial killer brutally kills a group of bound and gagged girls, reducing their remains to a red slop that he flushes down the loo. A female psycho despatches of her victims by repeatedly stabbing them in the crotch. These two sickos meet and discover that they have more in common than their love of killing: both of them have had their genitals mutilated, the guy's wiener just a stump, and the woman's holiest of holies sewn shut (and her nipples removed). The pair then stab each other. A lot.

    If you've enjoyed extreme Japanese cinema such as Grotesque, Guinea Pig, All Night Long and Red Room, then Takashi Hirose's Brutal probably sounds like it will satisfy your hunger for more visceral violence, being an hour and seven minutes of unrelenting barbarity. Unfortunately, despite the virtually non-stop stabbiness with a smattering of blunt force trauma, the film is actually quite dull, failing to deliver the graphic nastiness that fans of Eastern excess no doubt crave. There's very little in the way of unsettling prosthetic gore effects -- just lots of unimpressive knife thrusting with plenty of blood splashed about. It all gets very repetitive, although the disfigured private parts are an eye-opener.
    1yhkhan082

    Utterly terrible

    Silly violence & gore snoozefest that has zero redeeming qualities, entertainment value or sense. There is an attempt to make it all seem arty farty including using the scratched film stock effect Tarantino & Rodriguez's Grindhouse but its all so deathly dull and illogical that it would literally be more rewarding and entertaining to watch grass grow.

    I like violent and gory movies as much as the next guy but here its just for the shock value AND it doesn't even do that well. I was simply bored and just wished for the movie to end. Thankfully, its just about an hour long but that hour seems really really long. Not a movie I would ever recommend to anybody.

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      • December 11, 2018 (United States)
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