Marketed as a Japanese cannibal horror movie, this most certainly is NOT that. Well, it is MOST CERTAINLY Japanese. Exceedingly Japanese.
This movie isn't scary. At all. It's fun, though. And that's not a bad thing. The subverting of expectations is the strongest trait of Yellow Dragon's Village. There's questionable acting and even more questionable special effects.
The movie speeds along very, very quickly. The first 5-10 minutes comes off as one genre. It then transitions to the aforementioned creepy backwoods cannibal horror genre. As things happen, you may think to yourself 'really? That's where this going? Well, don't fret, my friend, because where you think it is going, I assure you, it is NOT.
The rest of the movie becomes an entirely genre entirely. I will leave it at that. It's stupid at times, really stupid at other times, but always fun. And the stupidity is clearly intentional, at least at some parts.
Very happy I didn't know anything other than the barebones description going into this. Best experienced that way.
This movie isn't scary. At all. It's fun, though. And that's not a bad thing. The subverting of expectations is the strongest trait of Yellow Dragon's Village. There's questionable acting and even more questionable special effects.
The movie speeds along very, very quickly. The first 5-10 minutes comes off as one genre. It then transitions to the aforementioned creepy backwoods cannibal horror genre. As things happen, you may think to yourself 'really? That's where this going? Well, don't fret, my friend, because where you think it is going, I assure you, it is NOT.
The rest of the movie becomes an entirely genre entirely. I will leave it at that. It's stupid at times, really stupid at other times, but always fun. And the stupidity is clearly intentional, at least at some parts.
Very happy I didn't know anything other than the barebones description going into this. Best experienced that way.
