Horrors of Malformed Men

Infobox Film
name = Horrors of Malformed Men


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caption = Poster of "Horrors of Malformed Men" (1969)
director = Teruo Ishii
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writer = Rampo Edogawa (novel)
Teruo Ishii
Masahiro Kakefuda
starring = Teruo Yoshida
Teruko Yumi
music = Masao Yagi
cinematography = Shigeru Akatsuka
editing =
distributor = Toei
released = flagicon|Japan October 31, 1969
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country = Japan
language = Japanese
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amg_id = 1:405464
imdb_id = 0142257

nihongo|"Horrors of Malformed Men" "aka" "Horror of a Deformed Man" "aka" "The Horror of Malformed Men"|江戸川乱歩全集　恐怖奇形人間|"Edogawa Rampo Taizen: Zenshū Kikei Ningen" is a 1969 Japanese film in the "Ero guro" (erotic-grotesque) sub-genre of Toei's style of "Pink film". Directed by Teruo Ishii, the film is considered a precursor to Toei's ventures into the "Pinky violent" style in the early 1970s. [cite book |last=Macias|first=Patrick|title=TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion|year=2001|publisher=Cadence Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=1-56931-681-3|pages=189-190|chapter=Toei's "Pinky Violence" - Abnormal, Sensational, and Shameless]

Cast

* Teruo Yoshida
* Teruko Yumi

Critical appraisal

Tom Mes of midnighteye.com calls "Horrors of Malformed Men" "one of the most singular cinematic experiences not just in Ishii's history, but in all of Japan's. Combining a spectrum of influences that stretches from Rampo to butoh, it taps into the country's post-nuclear trauma so audaciously that people fled theaters in disgust upon its release and that it has been consistently barred from appearing on video or DVD since. Yet, it is beautiful, haunting and oneiric; it is the closest one can come to a dreamlike experience without closing one's eyes." [cite web |last=Mes|first=Tom|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/horrmalf.shtml|title=The Horror of Malformed Men|accessdate=2007-10-14|date=2001-03-20|publisher= [http://www.midnighteye.com/ midnighteye.com] |language=English]

Availability

In effect banned in Japan, "Horrors of Malformed Men" was rarely seen in the decades after its release. On August 28, 2007, Synapse Films and Panik House gave "Horrors of Malformed Men" a mass-market release on region-1 DVD. [cite web |first=Ian|last=Jane|url=http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/E-H/horrors_of_malformed_men.html|title=Horrors Of Malformed Men (DVD review)|date=August 22, 2007|accessdate=2007-10-14|publisher= [http://www.dvdverdict.com/ dvdverdict.com] |language=English]

Notes

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* cite web |url=http://wc03.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:405464|title=Horrors of Malformed Men
accessdate=2007-10-14|last=Buchanan|first=Jason|publisher=Allmovie|language=English
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