Horror Thriller from director of BATTLE ROYALE and X CROSS

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director: Kenta Fukasaku
starring: Haruka Shimizu · Hiroya Matsumoto · Makoto Sakamoto · Rina Saito

Kenta Fukasaku continues his impressive string of exploitative cult films with this horror-slasher flick (also see BATTLE ROYALE II, YO-YO GIRL COP, X CROSS, KIRU). Schoolgirl Asuka commits suicide after being mercilessly bullied by classmates. A short time later, six students receive an email from the dead Asuka. They are asked to gather that night in an abandoned classroom. After the kids get together they are attacked and brutally murdered by someone wearing a rat costume.

The plot is a curious mixture of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and DEATH BELL, but Kenta Fukasaku makes it work. Part of the charm is director Fukasaku's mania for "cat fighting.". It's certainly interesting how the great filmmakers tend to bring their own personal fetishes along with them to a production. And Kenta Fukasaku loves two pretty girls in a knock-down fist-fight (that was obvious in ALL his previous movies); but this time he really delivers the goods!