Big Tits Zombie 3D
Aka: The Big Tits Dragon; Kyonyu Dragon; Zombie vs Strippers 5
Directed by Takao Nakano
Starring Sora Aoi, Risa Kasumi, Mari Sakurai, Tamayo, lo Aikawa
the synopsis is really simple;
A group of strippers discover a medieval Book of the Dead in the basement of their club. When one of them uses it to raise an army of the undead, all hell breaks loose; literally...
The title is pure marketing. There’s some nudity, but it’s on about the level of a Carry On film and is unlikely to upset your grandma. Rather than the salacious promise of its title, what Big Tits Zombie delivers is goofy, low-budget fun with enough quirkiness to get by.
‘No-budget’ would be more accurate. The zombies look like they’ve come straight from the face painting stall of a school fete and there’s never very many of them. The fight scenes are endearingly shambolic and what money was scraped together seems to have been spent on a couple of choice effects.
What saves the film is its humour, energy and idiosyncratic touches. As is to be expected, Big Tits Zombie doesn’t take itself seriously at all. If it did, it would be sunk. Instead, it maintains the right nonsensical tone to fuel the ludicrous spectacles while preserving the merest touch of reality to keep you interested in the characters. The film is peppered with outlandish, inexplicable details. These include ping-pong playing zombies, a new take on body sushi and a bureaucratic hell demon.
No one is going to accuse Big Tits Zombie of being a masterpiece. It’s not trying to be. But, unlike the majority of quickly cobbled together low-budget horrors, the film manages to achieve its modest aims. It' a funny way of portraying a Japanese culture, manga horrors. Quite a laughable surprise from Barbican..
For me it's an example of a making movies as you really want them to look.
There is nothing that anyone of us couldn't do to achieve this standard.
A bit of home made props, make-up, even the acting is quite like many of us could pull off.
Yet this movie made to a screen of Barbican, and surely, it's not because of it's greatness!
