Ace a wannabe rocker saves his favourite band from being killed by a sleazy club manager and in doing so he becomes their blood brother and so he can call on them when he needs help. While this happened, aliens are invading earth and turning people into zombies. So now Ash and a girl he meets are caught in this carnage, but Guitar Wolf is on his way to help Ash out, but also the sleazy manger is on Guitar Wolf's tail for taking something of his.
Well, this surreal film mostly comes across as one big music video clip, because of the impact that the dynamic soundtrack had, the disjointed plot and some of the filming techniques. This is an eccentric and quite wacky Japanese Zombie film. A lot of elements are thrown into the mix: Action, Romance, Horror, Sci-fi, Comedy and Musical- but I found this campy trash to be rather enjoyable.
You can easily see the influences of Romero's Trilogy of the Living dead movies throughout this film. With the way the zombies act and look to some familiar scenes and ideas thrown up. Though don't be expecting any type of satire or social commentary, but just plain silliness, brainless action and Rock 'n' Roll! With its abundance of over-the-top gore, blood splattering, zombie munching, loud explosions, tacky situations, lame dialogue, clichés aplenty, extreme screaming of rock 'n' roll, comical moments, high-octane soundtrack, live music shows, computerised zombie blasting, dazzling special effects and flamboyant and coooool characters, there really is never a dull moment to be had. So just switch off your brain for a more pleasurable viewing!
The performances are nothing tremendous, but they fit the bill. They don't seem to be taking it seriously, though Guitar Wolf plays himself and comes across quite the opposite and being your stereotypical super cool rockers in their black leather clothes, black shades and styled up hair. The band members' Bass and Drum Wolf play themselves as well. Masashi Endô as the leading man Ash comes across as a quirky rock 'n' roll fan. Shitichai Kwancharu as the innocently sweet Tobio, who has a secret and Inamiya Makoto as the cynical manger Captain, who loves his short shorts.
Plot wise, it's a break-neck pace love story of boy encounters girl and he then discovers courage to rescue her from the zombies, where true love conquers evil with some added help from his rock 'n' roll buddies. So not much is explained of why the aliens turned people into zombies. We don't see any aliens, but just UFOs floating in the sky. It has some incoherent sub-plots going on about other characters, but they all come together halfway through the film. Though none of it truly explains what you're seeing, but more on the people's actions and how they became in this messy situation. So the screenplay comes across as quite muddled and the climax was a tad impotent.
Overall it does have some appeal to it and a real sappy moral to the story ''Love has no limits of nationality or gender''. With it being delivered in quite a cheesy way. You can just tell a lot fun went into making this film and it's shows on screen.
Well, we learn that rock 'n' roll will always save the day and that's all that matters right?
Well, this surreal film mostly comes across as one big music video clip, because of the impact that the dynamic soundtrack had, the disjointed plot and some of the filming techniques. This is an eccentric and quite wacky Japanese Zombie film. A lot of elements are thrown into the mix: Action, Romance, Horror, Sci-fi, Comedy and Musical- but I found this campy trash to be rather enjoyable.
You can easily see the influences of Romero's Trilogy of the Living dead movies throughout this film. With the way the zombies act and look to some familiar scenes and ideas thrown up. Though don't be expecting any type of satire or social commentary, but just plain silliness, brainless action and Rock 'n' Roll! With its abundance of over-the-top gore, blood splattering, zombie munching, loud explosions, tacky situations, lame dialogue, clichés aplenty, extreme screaming of rock 'n' roll, comical moments, high-octane soundtrack, live music shows, computerised zombie blasting, dazzling special effects and flamboyant and coooool characters, there really is never a dull moment to be had. So just switch off your brain for a more pleasurable viewing!
The performances are nothing tremendous, but they fit the bill. They don't seem to be taking it seriously, though Guitar Wolf plays himself and comes across quite the opposite and being your stereotypical super cool rockers in their black leather clothes, black shades and styled up hair. The band members' Bass and Drum Wolf play themselves as well. Masashi Endô as the leading man Ash comes across as a quirky rock 'n' roll fan. Shitichai Kwancharu as the innocently sweet Tobio, who has a secret and Inamiya Makoto as the cynical manger Captain, who loves his short shorts.
Plot wise, it's a break-neck pace love story of boy encounters girl and he then discovers courage to rescue her from the zombies, where true love conquers evil with some added help from his rock 'n' roll buddies. So not much is explained of why the aliens turned people into zombies. We don't see any aliens, but just UFOs floating in the sky. It has some incoherent sub-plots going on about other characters, but they all come together halfway through the film. Though none of it truly explains what you're seeing, but more on the people's actions and how they became in this messy situation. So the screenplay comes across as quite muddled and the climax was a tad impotent.
Overall it does have some appeal to it and a real sappy moral to the story ''Love has no limits of nationality or gender''. With it being delivered in quite a cheesy way. You can just tell a lot fun went into making this film and it's shows on screen.
Well, we learn that rock 'n' roll will always save the day and that's all that matters right?