Ichi The Killer (2001)

My Rating 8.5/10

Ichi The Killer was probably the greatest Gore Film ever made. It was directed by Takashi Miike. The same director who made Audition. Ichi The Killer in Japan is originally callled "Koroshiya 1". But in USA they called "Ichi The Killer". Anyway, Ichi The Killer is about a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?

There was so many disturbing and nasty scenes in Ichi The Killer, where do I begin? Well when Kakihara puts this man in a torture chamber and he has this guy hanging on chains while Kakihara puts hot boiling water on the guys back. Also when Karkihara cuts his tongue off his a knife. I mean they did the same thing on Oldboy, but unlike Oldboy they actually show Kakihara cuting his tongue off. And then later on when Kakihara stitches his tongue up, how gross is that? There is also a scene where Ichi cuts this guy in two halfs and he splits in to two separate pieces. Another scene is where at the end Kakihara and Ichi are battling on the top of some building and Ichi's long lost brother Jijii shoots Ichi's foot and Ichi slices Jijii's neck. While then, Kakihara put his two knifes into his ear to kill his hearing. And Ichi puts his shoe blade into Kakihara's head and kicks Kakihara while Kakihara does a backflip and lands on a pole but then falls and loses his balance and falls off the building. Kakihara then is laying on the ground a bloody mess.

Ichi The Killer won 6 wins & 1 nomination. It was truly the most disgusting movie of the century.

Ichi The Killer's IMDB Profile

Oldboy (2003)

My Rating: 9/10

Oldboy was a South Korea film directed by Chan-wook Park. Oldboy was an outstanding in my own opinion. After seeing Audition you think what film can topple over Audition. Well Oldboy seems to be that movie that did. Oldboy is about A man named Oh Dae-su who is an average man and then he is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment.

After watching Oldboy you were blown away by all the great scenes that tooked place in the film. Such as when Dae-su comes out of a building and a woman yells to a police officer to stop Dae-su and out of know where a guy from a building commits suicide off the building while he crashes through a car while holding his dog. It is so brutal and it totally caught me by surprise. Another painful scene is where Dae-su is wrenching some guy's teeth out with the end of a hammer. Speaking of hammer, the greatest scene of all in Oldboy was the Fight Scene where Dae-su attacks all these guards with a hammer. It was one of the greatest fighting scenes I've ever seen. Another scene is the Tongue cutting scene, where Dae-su cuts his tongue for forgiveness.

Oldboy won 16 wins & 10 nominations. It also received #5 for Bravo's 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments. To leave off with my Oldboy review I have a few words, Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

Oldboy's IMDB Profile

Zombie (1979)

My Rating 6/10

Zombie was a Italian style horror film. Zombie was directed by Lucio Fulci, Lucio was a Italian director. When he made Zombie there were a few difficulties with the films title. Zombie is actually know as it's original title "Zombi 2". The reason why it was called Zombi 2 was because George A. Romero's Dawn Of The Dead was originally called "Zombie: Dawn Of The Dead" in the UK. So basically what had happened was that Zombi 2 couldn't steal the same title as Romero's Dawn Of The Dead known as Zombie in the UK. So they just call it Zombi 2. Why leave the E out in Zombie, I have no idea. Although Zombie also had another title they were going to use which was "Zombie Flesh Eaters". Which would have been a better title then instead of calling it Zombi 2. Well anyway about the film, Zombie is about a sail boat that arrives in New York without a living soul but a zombie that attacks two guards from the Coast Guard. The daughter of the owner of the ship, Anne Bowles (Tisa Farrow), requests information about her missing father that was in the Antilles to the detectives that are investigating the crime without success. She meets the journalist Peter West (Ian McCulloch) and they decide to investigate what might have happened to her father. They travel to Matul Island with Brian Hull (Al Cliver) and Susan Barrett (Auretta Gay) in their boat. Once in the tropical island, they meet Dr. David Menard (Richard Johnson), who is trying to find a cure to a disease that brings dead back to life, turning them into zombies that eat human flesh, increasing the menace against the group.

There were only a couple of awesome scenes in Zombie that I remember and that was one of them were a lady goes deep sea diving near the boat and out of no where a zombie is in the ocean with the girl and the girl escapes and returns to the boat but, the zombie is approached by a shark in the ocean and both the zombie and the shark battle against each other. Both the shark and the zombie are taking bites out of each other. It was really great! Beyond the Shark Vs. Zombie scene there was the most memorable scene in Zombie where a lady is grabbed by a zombie and is forced into a piece of sharp wood and having her eye gouge right into the wood.

Zombie won 1 nomination, It also got #98 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Zombie will always remain in the greatest gore horror movies of all time.

Zombie's IMDB Profile