By Geno McGahee
OK, let me put this out there right away. I hate torture-porn horror films and I’m not too fond of the horror entries from Asia. THE RING was OK, and there were a few others that were average, but overall, I don’t dig it. Their culture is different than my culture and I can’t relate to what scares them. I’m not afraid of my cell phone or a VHS tape…unless it has bad homemade porn involving my grandmother. I am not afraid of CGI gray ghost children either. Those movies don’t click with me.
IMPRINT is done by the guy that brought the torture-fest “AUDITION” to horror, but these films aren’t really horror. They are “make you squirm” odd films. That is all and that is all IMPRINT really is.
We start with Christopher (Billy Drago), a journalist, seeking his girlfriend to rescue her from her destructive life of prostitution. He encounters a disfigured girl that tells him that his girl hanged herself. We then learn about the torture of Komomo and it is gruesome and ugly and needless. The point to this tale is just to make you squirm and gross you out.
I wonder what has happened in the life of Takashi Miike and why he makes films like IMPRINT and AUDITION. I can only imagine that he must have been through some fucked up things to come up with this sort of trash. I very rarely will call any film “trash,” but I just don’t see a purpose to this, outside of just making people turn away and promise to never watch it again. I will never watch it again. I could have dealt with the torture had the story been ANY good at all. I would call it slow-moving, but that would suggest that it had any pace at all. It was by far, the worst entry in this series.
Rating: 1/10
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