Guzoo: The Thing Forsaken by God - Part I

A group of Japanese schoolgirls on holiday at the secluded home of their professor are menaced by a flesh-eating, attic-dwelling monster that attacks people through mirrors. The formless monster design is unique, and variably redolent of a MUMMENSCHANZ puppet.

There's really too little of a story to warrant commentary in this proto-shokushu-zeme featurette...it's essentially just a string of scenes with pretty girls getting mulched by this "Guzoo" thing. It's certainly not for all tastes, but if you're gore-horny and like them really ooey-gooey and gross, put on a bib and dig in! It's pretty fun, as these things go, and clocking in at just 40 minutes, it doesn't exactly overstay its welcome.

6/10.

Revisiting this oddity on Lovecraft's birthday today. A low budget SOV gore short movie, part cosmic body horror with slimy tentacles. This is very unusual movie when compared with the Kazuo Komizu's films where nudity and gore fit perfectly. Extreme Japanese fans will be disappointed as the film delivers zero nudity. It has similarities with Prince of Darkness (1987) but predates it by a year. Starts of like a low budget Hausu staged soberly and feels like a kick in the pit towards the climax. The script is simple, the acting is not that convincing, but the effects implemented covers the film with an uncomfortable veil. In addition, the score for the creature supports the action and inevitably casts its spell. "Guzoo" obviously isn't a perfect movie but is more or less a fitting addition to fans of the genre. On the other hand, there's barely any action until the end. That's means that dialog has to carry the weight up until the end which is pretty mediocre, so give it a shot and enjoy the slightly bumpy change of direction and GORE.

Gotta love when a movie has Part 1 in the title, but there was never a sequel or anything that could be called Part 2. If there was a Guzoo movie, I might consider watching it though, because this first and only one wasn't bad for something so barebones and low-budget.

I could almost call it restrained, considering the poster and title imply/show graphic violence, and it takes a bit beyond the halfway point for things to get super messy.

The narrative is sort of just crazy things happening to a group of young women staying in a weird house though, so it's not trying to rewrite any playbook or anything. They go somewhere, there's a monster, there's some blood, there's some death.

It looked like it might've been fun to make, but I guess you can never be certain. It was pretty fun to watch, as a bite-sized and schlocky splatter film.

I also liked the monster. Can't go wrong with a good monster.

Most of the time I didn't realize what I was watching, the story was pure nonsense, the effects we're okay but nothing if the movie made any sense: bad movie. It would have been more excited if there would have been real nudity in the film.

Yes, it probably shouldn't be rated so high since it is a bit dull and the girls are rather interchangeable fodder but I love the practical FX. If you're looking for something like The Thing made in Japan in the 80s, this is the closest you're going to find. I wish there was a 10-hour making of documentary on it. I'm just a crazy huge fan. If you have high expectations, you'll be disappointed so it's best to go in thinking you'll see absolute crap then you might come out ok. I don't really care for Entrails of a Virgin or Entrails of a Beautiful Woman but this and Beautiful Weapon I really love especially the latter (it's a much better film but Guzoo has a great monster).