Thursday, June 26, 2008

Tokyo Gore Police Hopefully Not Coming For You


The trailer for "Tokyo Gore Police" is deeply arresting. Where to begin? With the crocodile vagina? The removable face? The blood rain umbrella? I guess the one thing I would say is that it made me appreciate that some parts of the world attempt to deal with the harsh realities of inevitable death not by censorship but with humor.

"The plot: future Tokyo is plagued by bio-mechanical a virus. People who contract the virus turn into 'Engineers,' named so for their ability to assemble weapons out of their infected flesh wounds. A special privatized police force (the gore police, also known as 'Engineer Hunters') exists to wipe out these beings, but if they’re wounded by one of the engineers, they quickly join their ranks, horrific implements of death quickly spawning from their own flesh."

For another festival of violence, check out this Russian trailer for "Wanted," via Chatarra, which calls it "Porno de balas."