I love Japanese (or Asian in general) horror movies. They have a way to freak me out with their eerie ambiance, lots and lots of hair, cell phones, creepy children and elevators.
This movie on the other hand isn't like that. This movie is from the other end of the spectrum with lots of blood, severed things and violence (for once I saw the unrated version, yay!).
It tells a story of a couple who just has started dating. Aaaand then the creepy, creepy doctor abducts them very much in the fashion of Hostel (to which this is compared to) and Human Centipede (which I would say is more similar to this). Hostel had the physical and mental abuse down but Grotesque actually goes on and ups Hostel with sexual abuse.
The killer doctor's motivation isn't that clear although there's a speech from the girl (I don't think they ever tell the characters first names. Though IMDb says her name is Aki but I'll just call her The Girl) at the end. She says she pities him because his mother is a whore and that he has a condition which makes him smell really bad but not notice it himself. And that it's probably the reason why he is so lonely and then retaliates to random people. He gets mad and kills her but she just called he's mother a stinking whore so...
What makes Grotesque different from Hostel is the other possible motivation of the killer. He says he's very rich and is just bored and through his victims will to live he can feel excitement. But it's questionable if he's lying because first he cuts of various body parts (finger necklace, lovely) then he treats their wounds and tells them he's gonna let them go and give himself to the police because he had he's excitement. But then when the couple is almost healed he starts torturing them again. He wants more excitement and THEN he's gonna let them go. Well, It ends badly. The good doctor slits the boys stomach open, ties the other end of his intestine to a hook and makes him walk to a pair of scissors (and he cheers the boy the whole way). He is the supposed to cut himself loose from his own bowel and continue to the girl and free her. Which he can't do. Then we get the speech and the doctor beheads the girl whose head then bites him. That's Japan for ya...
At the end we see the doctor scattering their ashes and going for another girl. So nothing is changed. And I think that makes him a liar liar pants-a-flame..
Only thing is... I don't think it's supposed to be that deep. There really isn't that much of a plot. It's just supposed to shock with it bloody abuse (and the severed nipples, don't forget about the severed nipples). The make-up effects are amazing (like always in Asian horror). Didn't like the CG-blood at the end but it was hardly palpable.
I'm always set for gore. Especially if it's from Japan.
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