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Takashi Miike is known for pushing the boundaries of horror in violent torture spectacles like Ichi the Killer and Audition. But in Visitor Q, he pushes the boundaries of the weird and the unimaginable in ways that totally frazzle the brain.

Man, is it weird. I still don't really know what it's about. The first scene is a father-and-daughter seduction. One character later becomes obsessed with breast milk. There's domestic violence, drug abuse, and necrophilia. It's one of those rare movies that mixes abjectly disgusting events with blacker-than-black comedy in order to leave you feeling polluted and confused but also incredibly stimulated, refreshed by the experience of something completely new.

It's an extraordinary testament to Miike's skill as a filmmaker that Visitor Q isn't just an exhausting, depressing ordeal. The characters' apparent indifference to a great deal of the hideous things they do to one another makes it feel oddly alienating, and funny, and sad, all at once. It's horrible, but there's nothing else like it.