Wish there was a decent release as it would make a great splash at Bleak Week. Murakami adapting his own cult novel plays like a cross between KIDS & Jesus’s Son, as he follows late teen boredom in a dead end Japanese port town. Much like the difficulties that faced releasing  ‘Looking for Mr Goodbar’ this film is wall to wall American music hits playing in the diagetic spaces, hinting at a more exciting world outside of the frame these characters are trapped in.

A decade before Miami Vice in Champagne, IL this 15k feature shows how to go big on a dime. Inspired stuff.

The destructive nature of trying to live someone else’s dream. The black hole that swallows everything. Heartbreaking stuff.

I don’t like long horror films. 
I don’t like clown horror films. 
I didn’t like Terrifier. 

But goddamn if I didn’t just have the best gore filled, F’d up, crowd groaning, gut churning, HFS they went there & MORE screening of this.  
It’s been a while since a film shocked me in this way but I was smiling like a weirdo the whole time. A true gore classic for the Halloween season!