June 14, 2006

DVD review: Eko Eko Azarak - Wizard of Darkness

Well, this was a nice surprise.

Something awful is happening at a Japanese high school. Ominous monks chant Latin in the basement, and young girls are being killed in mysterious accidents. When the locations are connected with straight lines, they form a pentagram1 - with the school right in the middle! Mix in a mysterious new student, Misa Kuroi, who has witchy powers and has come specifically to try and save the students who are being set up to be killed.

It all sounds a bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Japan with more sex and gore, but this is very much its own thing (and was actually made in 1995, and based on a Manga that first appeared in the '50s). It bears no relationship whatsoever to the appallingly-name "J-horror" phenomenon2 that sprung up after the success of Ringu.

Director Shimako Sato had previously helmed the chic British goth/angst snooze-fest Tale of a Vampire (starring reliable Eurotrash regular Julian Sands), which was nowhere near as good as this. Sato, who is female, lingers on the exploitative elements as luridly as any male director so kudos for that. In the accompanying featurette she talks about how much she likes blood (this comes through vividly) but also claims that it's not really a horror movie and she's focusing on the "romantic" element.

That's pure bullshit. This is old-school horror through and through. Dead teenagers galore, with serious lashings of nicely photographed lesbian sex. There are some fun Omen/Final Destination-style creative deaths (the opening scene is particularly good), and the movie is ruthless about killing people off.

It's also nice to see Western occultism being used as the exotic foreign Black Magick, rather than West African Santeria or Caribbean Voudoun or South American Nagualism or whatever.

Highly recommended to anyone who likes '80s horror of the Night of the Demons variety.

1. Or, to be honest, it could form a pentagon. From Hell this is not.

2. "J-horror" movies are really just ghost stories that happen to be made in Japan, usually very much in line with the English ghost story. One of the most prominent, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Seance, was even based on an English novel that was previously filmed in England by Brian Forbes and starring Richard Attenborough. Some of the filmmakers associated with "J-horror" have expressed their extreme displeasure, and have pointed out that apart from setting there is very little to seperate their work from, say, The Haunting (1963).

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