Stacy (film)

Infobox Film
name = Stacy


writer = Chisato Oogawara (screenplay) Kenji Otsuki (novel)
starring =
director = Naoyuki Tomomatsu
producer =
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distributor =
released = 2001
runtime = 80 minutes
language = Japanese
running time = 80 minutes
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amg_id = 1:284726
imdb_id = 0368296

"Stacy" (ステーシー, also known as "Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies") is a Japanese horror comedy, released in 2001. It is based on a novel by Kenji Otsuki (大槻 ケンヂ) directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, in which teenage girls turn into zombies.

Plot Summary

In the near future, the entire world is struck with a bizarre malady which affects every girl between the ages of 15 and 17 years old.

Victims first experience a period of giddiness called "Near Death Happiness" ("NDH" or 臨死遊戯状態) before expiring. Within minutes of death the victim rises again as a flesh-eating zombie--a "Stacy,". These zombies run amok until they are cut into many pieces in an act called a "Repeat-Kill" (再殺).

The government has organized the poorly-trained "Romero Repeat-Kill Troops," who ride around on garbage trucks, ordered to act out the disposal of the Stacys. By law, a Stacy may only be Repeat-Killed by her loved ones or the Romero Repeat Kill Troops.

Through research, it is discovered that a key to the Stacy phenomenon is the "Butterfly Twinkle Powder" (BTP or 蝶羽状輝徽粉) that accumulates on the Stacys' skin.

Cast

(in alphabetical order)
*Norman England - Jeff
*Tomoka Hayashi - Nozomi
*Yukijiro Hotaru
*Natsuki Katō - Eiko
*Shirô Misawa
*Masayoshi Nogami - Father
*Toshinori Omi - Shibukawa
*Kenji Otsuki
*Hinako Saeki
*Youji Tanaka - Rokuyama
*Donbei Tsuchihira
*Yasutaka Tsutsui - Dr. Inugami Sukekiyo
*Shungiku Uchida

Soundtrack

The music featured in the movie is by Tokusatsu, of which Kenji Otsuki is a member.

Trivia

* The task force that hunts the zombie schoolgirls are called the Romero Repeat Kill Troops are named after George Romero
* There is a chainsaw attachment which you can fit on your hand. It is named the "Bruce Campbell's Right Hand 2", a reference to Bruce Campbell and the "Evil Dead" trilogy. On the weapon itself however, it is printed "Blues Campbell", an example of Engrish.

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