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This 2001 J-Horror effort from director Naoyuki Tomomatsu is set in a future dystopia where teenaged girls begin dying for no apparent reason -- and often in an elated, chronically happy state of mind... read more read more.... One of these girls, Stacy, is back from the dead, however, and she's ready to gorge herself on human flesh. As more and more teenage-girl zombies begin to feast on the living, the people of Japan brace themselves and try to find a way to end the madness. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Naoyuki Tomomatsu

Release Date: January 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003

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  • vierasesine
    October 24, 2007
    vierasesine
    Immense amounts of gore, supercute school girls that jitter and emit something resembling fairy dust, and a mad scientist who tries to make sense of it all. Tose are the three key elements of this film.


    *SPOILERY*

    Only in Japan would teenage school girls turn into blood thirst... read morey zombies just for love! I do wish they would've explained why they were called Stacy, though.

    I think the Evil Dead and Romero references were cute - even if Romero jokes in zombie movies are getting a bit old - and I so totally want a Blues Campbell's Right Arm 2 of my own too! (The purple one, please.) Oh, and the IRTD were cute too.
  • patrickdol
    March 16, 2008
    patrickdol
    I hate to say this, but this one might be a good candidate for a remake. The problem is it had so many great ideas, and it started out really promising but just fucking looses it and becomes too convoluted. I was definitely dissappointed as on paper this film seems amazing. I mea... read moren there's a warning on it that mentions extreme violence and gore and bunny suits! On gore it delivers, on violence it's so-so and only one bunny suit for 5 minutes. But they could have done so much better. That being said, it has good aspects.
  • cacutshaw
    January 29, 2007
    cacutshaw
    Gory yet beautiful film about loving something that doesn't exist. The theme song is great and the film hardly ever lets up.
  • briley9
    November 24, 2008
    briley9
    Stacy takes the position at the head of list of weird films I?ve seen in the last year, and probably takes a position among the top five or ten weird films I?ve ever seen. The film has a three-part plot stemming from the premise: that all young women die of a mysterious disease ... read moresometime between the ages of 15 and 17, then reanimate as flesh-eating zombies?called Stacies?who can only be killed by being dismembered into 156 pieces.

    1. A scientist and his military bunker full of support staff are researching the Stacy phenomenon and trying to find a cure.
    2. A group of three young women are working to earn the 1,000,000 yen needed to hire a celebrity Stacy-killer to ?re-kill? them after they reanimate.
    3. A puppeteer meets and befriends a young woman in ?Late Stage Happiness,? a two-week mania that preceeds Stacy-fication. She has asked him to ?re-kill? her.

    The film?s plot is trippy enough, with horrifying gore effects involving wiggling bits of bodies and lots of blood everywhere. But on top of that, we have trippy Japanese ads (as in the image above, for home chain saws in the ?Bruce Campbell?s Right Hand? line, we have zombies who give off a blue fairy dust that makes their victims docile, and we have a strange group of zombie-killing soldiers called Romeros.

    But then on top of it, there are some secondary ideas about the Stacies being motivated not by hatred or hunger, but by love, and a strange end to the film that suggests a post-war world in which humans and Stacies co-exist and intermarry. That?s right, I said intermarry. I?m not sure what else to say about this film except that it is strange, strange, strange.
  • heavyd2000
    November 23, 2008
    heavyd2000
    A good zomibe film with an interesting message but it's a bit drug out. They should have just edited it down a bit. Look for bruce campbell's second hand in this one. wow.
  • eskaton666
    February 29, 2008
    eskaton666
    Gory, funny, even somewhat touching at points: This is one interesting ride. Fans of the zombie comedy/horror genre, take note. This one is worth a look.
  • johnemersonsfoot
    January 27, 2008
    johnemersonsfoot
    A nice take on the zombie movie, with a Japanese slant. Combining humor and horror to spotlight the culture's odd fixation with schoolgirls.
  • Pinion327
    October 8, 2007
    Pinion327
    Attack of the Japanese zombie schoolgirls! This movie is surprising, and not just because of the daring subject (or brain) matter. The surprise is that there is nothing sexual to this film. And the ending is one of the most philosophically bizarre attempts at a ?happily ever a... read morefter? that I?ve ever seen (not unlike Let Sleeping Corpses Lie). It gets points for originality?
  • lhooqtius
    February 9, 2007
    lhooqtius
    Schlock genius. A Zombie love story that is seriously charming, yet at the same time bizarre and disturbing. This director, and his cast (especially the Japanese Vincent Price analogue) should make more films. Please. Totally schlocktastic.
  • flynnparadox
    September 13, 2006
    flynnparadox
    Dreadful Japanese zombie movie. The only apparent message here is that women are useless, and should be hated and feared. If you like the Japanese zombie scene, check out Junk instead.

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
November 25, 2004
Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies

It's a fully developed philosophy informed by more than the desire to splash gore on the screen, which is more than you get from most zombie movies. Full Review

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