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5. Tokyo Gore Police
There are movies that treat bloody violence as a shocking and near taboo subject, movies that approach the subject with gallows humour and then there’s Tokyo Gore Police, which thinks subtlety and nuance are towns in the American Midwest.
Leave it to Yoshihiro Nishimura, the depraved Japanese genius behind Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl and Helldriver, to come up with a movie where genetically modified super-criminals known as “engineers” are hunted across Tokyo by a samurai sword-wielding heroine who self-mutilates in order to stave off flashbacks to her father’s murder.
The engineers include a snail lady and a crocodile woman (who’s literally half human, half crocodile, and best described as a “croc teaser”), though special mention must be made of the gentleman with the 6 foot penis gun that fires lethal projectiles that never miss their target.
If that’s not enough, there’s also a woman torn apart between two moving cars and who could forget the sight of breasts that produce toxic waste that melts the skin of your opponent? Nishimura also created the outrageous special effects and while he later brought similar insanity to Horny House Of Horror and Zombie Ass: Toilet Of The Dead, it’s Tokyo Gore School that remains his masterpiece.