Celluloid Nightmares (1999)

Also known as: Celluloid Nightmares, Muzan-e: AV gyaru satsujin bideo wa sonzai shita! Description: A reporter and her crew are investigating the disappearance of Mai Tsurumi - a popular AV actress and star of many menstruation fetish videos. While exploring the demented world of Japanese fetish porn, the reporter comes across a video that may reveal the e of Tsurumi. Review: Here you go, folks, Daisuke Yamanouchi's (Red Room, Blood Sisters) infamous Muzan-E with subtitles for the first time! The film itself, if you don't know it, has quite the reputation as being an extremely fucked up movie. It's all very cheesy and played with a sense of humour. There is a lot of menstrual blood though... Sleazy, grimy, hard-to-find gore movie from the bloody heartland of the far east! In Daisuke Yamanouchi's hard-to-find classic, a reporter (who obviously has no common sense) making a documentary on the more grotesque depths of the Japanese direct to video industry decides to look into a supposed snuff production company. Is she getting into trouble? What do you think!?! The realism of Muzan-E is assisted by the performances, which are surprisingly good – especially Yuki Emoto, the leading actress, who manages to encompass many different facets of, without trying to give to much away, a character that goes through some major changes towards the end of the film. In moments of terror, the cheese of her TV presenter persona disappears, making the brief moments of horror work well. Nasty from beginning to end, with rape, murder, brutality, and a whole lot of menstruation (which is apparently like the motherfucking red tide in Japan) this is well worth your 65 minutes.