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The Boy from Hell

Original title: Jigoku kozô
  • 2004
  • 50m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
232
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The Boy from Hell (2004)
JapaneseHorror

A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister... Read allA mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and in... Read allA mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can... Read all

  • Director
    • Mari Asato
  • Writers
    • Hideshi Hino
    • Seiji Tanigawa
    • Naoteru Yamamoto
  • Stars
    • Mirai Yamamoto
    • Mitsuru Akaboshi
    • Baku Numata
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.1/10
    232
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mari Asato
    • Writers
      • Hideshi Hino
      • Seiji Tanigawa
      • Naoteru Yamamoto
    • Stars
      • Mirai Yamamoto
      • Mitsuru Akaboshi
      • Baku Numata
    • 9User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mirai Yamamoto
    • Setsu
    Mitsuru Akaboshi
    • Daio
    Baku Numata
    Hanae Shôji
    Shôta Sometani
    Shôta Sometani
    Kanji Tsuda
    Kanji Tsuda
    • Director
      • Mari Asato
    • Writers
      • Hideshi Hino
      • Seiji Tanigawa
      • Naoteru Yamamoto
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    User reviews9

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    4marcorivas54

    Bad Movie

    Boy From Hell is a live action adaptation of the manga of the same name. Daio (the boy) dies from a car accident and his mother brings him back to life. When he rises from the grave he is a deformed child from hell and wrecks havoc in the neighborhood. This film is extremely low budget with bad acting and obvious fake scenery and gore. The idea is good and the manga was probably good as I have not read it but I'm probably thinking the manga was 100% better. This isn't a film necessary for a J-horror fan to watch as it pretty much sucked with all the terrible fake gore and everything.
    6Jeremy_Urquhart

    Crazy and clunky but I kind of dug it.

    Ultra low-budget and very short film that kind of worked, I think? I was a bit zonked out while watching it and was in the need of something short and simple. I'm not sure if how I felt led The Boy from Hell to feel like a fever dream. Maybe this is just the right way to watch something like this.

    It's a little gory and it's got a bit of body horror, but it never commits enough to be too horrific. I guess it also deals with a family tragedy that plays out like the one seen near the start of 2018's Hereditary. I've got you, Ari Aster, taking ideas from then-14-year-old obscure Japanese horror movies that aren't short films but aren't long enough to be features exactly! You will pay for your crimes (jokes, no one has a patent on people's heads getting knocked off while sticking them out of moving vehicles).

    The Boy from Hell is bizarre but it is about a boy who dies and then goes to hell and then he kind of comes back so I got what I was after, based on that title. It's low-grade in a sort of charming way, and has some dark fun for just under an hour and then ends. Maybe they were going for something a bit deeper and it didn't register, but that's okay. I kind of liked what I thought this was. What my sleepy, still-recovering-from-a-mild-cold body/mind thought it was.
    8HumanoidOfFlesh

    Bizarre and gory horror flick based on Hideshi Hino's manga.

    "The Boy From Hell" is about a surgeon who brings her son named Daio back from the dead,only he's now a decomposing corpse boy with a taste for blood and human flesh.In 2004,Pony Canyon decided to adapt six different Hino manga stories,all of these shorts were made by different filmmakers using digital video.Mari Asato's "The Boy From Hell" is a grotesque and surprisingly gory horror flick.Daio looks truly creepy and actually resembles murderous babies from Larry Cohen's "It's Alive" series.The acting is fine,the cinematography is great and the use of colors is very Argentoesque.Overall,"The Boy From Hell" should satisfy fans of gruesome Japanese manga stories.It's not as sickeningly brutal and morbid as several "Guinea Pig" movies,but still packs a punch.8 out of 10.
    6Humdinger69

    "I Don't Know Why He Became A Monster, But The Police Will Not Let You Get Away With This!"

    A doctor tragically loses her son in a car accident (quite graphically). A random old woman appears telling the mother she can bring her son back if she kills a boy the same age with a special tusk. She does so (again, quite graphically) and her son returns, but not as the boy he once was, but as a hideous monster who craves human flesh. She keeps him locked up in a cage and tries to find a way to heal him but he escapes and starts slaughtering anyone in his path. It's not long before a detective with a huge nose and violently loud sneezes is hot on their trail.

    It's makes even less sense than it sounds like believe it or not, but by gawd is it entertaining. The charmingly cheap green screen effects are immediately striking. Then there's the surprisingly graphic deaths of children. Not since Beware! Children At Play have I seen so many gory child deaths depicted in such an unflinching manner. Then, there's the centerpiece of the movie - a jaw-dropping dream(?) sequence where the titular Boy from Hell goes "home" and wreaks even greater havoc. This sequence then returns later on for an even stranger climax.

    This is the first film I've seen from Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror series. Every other movie in this series sounds interesting to say the least (one of them is called Lizard Baby, another is about zombie dolls) so best believe I'll be giving them a watch.
    1TrentReznor

    Extremely bad

    This movie is the worst movie i have seen in my whole life.

    It have nothing to save, all is bad, the actors and the acting is comical, the make up sucks, the plot is totally predictable...nothing can be saved.

    At least, the suffering ends after only 45 minutes, and seems that the director and the rest of the crew don't take the movie seriously.

    I read somewhere that this movie is the first part of a hexalogy based in Hideshi Hino's tales...i hope the rest of the movies will be better...because if the are worst than this, this will be without a doubt the worst saga of horror films.

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    • Release date
      • October 3, 2004 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • 日野日出志のザ・ホラー怪奇劇場
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      • Common Wealth Entertainment
      • Japan CableCast K.K.
      • PAL Entertainments
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