Banned for decades in its native Japan,
director Teruo Ishii's Horrors of Malformed Men is
considered a landmark of Japanese horror, in particular the "Ero
guro" (erotic-grotesque) genre, which combines horror with bizarre
sexuality. Based off the literary works of author Edogawa Rampo,
Horrors of Malformed Men is a surreal, psychedelic fever-dream
of a movie, where logic and neat, tidy story progression are set
aside in favor of a more dream-like atmosphere. While decades of
increasingly extreme horror movies, both from Japan and elsewhere,
have muted the film's shock value, it remains a uniquely bizarre
film.
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