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"The Machine Girl" movie review


“The Machine girl,” a 2008 film, not to be confused with Machine Girl the musical artist, is an intense Japanese horror comedy directed by Noboru Iguchi. Despite its middling reviews, it gained quite the following. To me, the idea of a girl with a machine gun arm is pretty sick, and Ash WIlliams-esque, so despite poor reviews I had high hopes for this movie.

Ami, our main character, is a regular two-armed girl, until one day her brother is found dead on the sidewalk along with his friend. After discovering her brother was a victim of the murderous son of a brutal ninja-yakuza family, she decides violence is the only possible option. She enacts her brutal revenge plan, losing an arm on the way, but luckily finding a guy who makes her the sickest robotic arm known to man. Ami is engrossed in a bloody world of drill bras, a weapon that rips people's heads off like a claw machine picking up a stuffed animal, and a brief appearance chainsaw leg. She’s not the innocent high school girl she once was.

When this film was first pitched, there was only the idea of a one-armed girl in a bikini looking for revenge, no machine gun. But what it became is utterly awesome, a girl bent on revenge smoking bad guys with just her arm is badass and hilarious. There's a scene where a dad gets sprayed with his son's own blood while taking a bath, and that's just the first crime Ami committed, so you can safely assume she amps it up as she goes along. She even meets a partner in crime along the way.

The director is multi-talented, specializing in porn and low budget horror. Most of his films involve hot girls and either zombies or mechanical aspects. Some other of his titles include "Zombie ass: toilet of the dead" (sick name if you ask me,) "RoboGeisha" and the one I want to see most badly "Nuigulumar Z" about a gothic Lolita who merges with a teddy bear to fight zombies.

People who rated this movie low must hate fun, because this was the most entertained by a movie that I’ve been in a while. The drill bra alone makes this movie worthwhile; all the insanely unique death scenes and weapons are amazingly gory fun.

So if you’re down for a splatterfest about bullies and yakuza members meeting a bloody end, filled with cheap special effects, then check this movie out!

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