Donbei Tsuchihira, Hinako Saeki, Kendi Ootsuki

In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, the girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a "pre-death" state of ...( read more  read more... )absolute bliss and joy. Once dead, girls come back as a flesh-eating zombie nicknamed "Stacy". The world is in chaos. Countries suffer from famine, war, and zero-population growth because of this teenage death epidemic. To keep the zombies from returning and eating innocent people, families are urged to kill their daughters before they are allowed to die by this mysterious disease (chopping them up and leaving them in garbage bags for govern-ment-sanctioned pick-up). In a Japanese military base, some undead schoolgirls are held and tested by a scientist who tries to unlock the secrets behind the girls return from the dead. Suddenly, the world turns upside down yet again as a soldier, in a fit of depression, lets the girls free to storm the base and devour anyone in their path. Based on the popular Japanese novel by Kenji Otsuki, Stacy is a bloodbath of extreme gore effects and comedy with elements of Resident Evil and George A. Romer's classic Day of the Dead.

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Unrated, 80 min.

Directed by: Naoyuki Tomomatsu

Release Date: January 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003

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  • October 24, 2007
    Immense amounts of gore, supercute school girls that jitter and emit something resembling fairy dust, and a mad scientist who tries to make sense of it all. Tose are the three key elements of this film.


    *SPOILERY*

    Only in Japan would teenage school girls turn into blood thirst...( read more)y zombies just for love! I do wish they would've explained why they were called Stacy, though.

    I think the Evil Dead and Romero references were cute - even if Romero jokes in zombie movies are getting a bit old - and I so totally want a Blues Campbell's Right Arm 2 of my own too! (The purple one, please.) Oh, and the IRTD were cute too.
  • September 13, 2006
    Dreadful Japanese zombie movie. The only apparent message here is that women are useless, and should be hated and feared. If you like the Japanese zombie scene, check out Junk instead.
  • March 16, 2008
    I hate to say this, but this one might be a good candidate for a remake. The problem is it had so many great ideas, and it started out really promising but just fucking looses it and becomes too convoluted. I was definitely dissappointed as on paper this film seems amazing. I mea...( read more)n there's a warning on it that mentions extreme violence and gore and bunny suits! On gore it delivers, on violence it's so-so and only one bunny suit for 5 minutes. But they could have done so much better. That being said, it has good aspects.
  • January 29, 2007
    Gory yet beautiful film about loving something that doesn't exist. The theme song is great and the film hardly ever lets up.
  • August 21, 2009
    Essential viewing for any fan of zombie movies. Love the 'Blues Campbell Right Hand 2' chainsaw (Engrish obviously intended) and the Romero references.

    You have to give credit to a director that would decide to shoot up the skirt of a dead girl zombie who has just lost half of h...( read more)er head to machine gun fire.

    Zombie girl's face blasted off and the double-dead corpse rests on the ground:

    Cameraman: "Where do you want the next shot, Naoyuki?"

    Naoyuki: "Hmm... on ground level I think... yeah... showing the dead zombie girl... make that an up-the-skirt shot. Better than showing her face, right?"

    Cameraman: "You got it."

    Naoyuki: "By the way, I wanna see some panties in that shot too!"

    Camerman: "Done."

    Awesome.
  • November 24, 2008
    Stacy takes the position at the head of list of weird films I?ve seen in the last year, and probably takes a position among the top five or ten weird films I?ve ever seen. The film has a three-part plot stemming from the premise: that all young women die of a mysterious disease ...( read more)sometime between the ages of 15 and 17, then reanimate as flesh-eating zombies?called Stacies?who can only be killed by being dismembered into 156 pieces.

    1. A scientist and his military bunker full of support staff are researching the Stacy phenomenon and trying to find a cure.
    2. A group of three young women are working to earn the 1,000,000 yen needed to hire a celebrity Stacy-killer to ?re-kill? them after they reanimate.
    3. A puppeteer meets and befriends a young woman in ?Late Stage Happiness,? a two-week mania that preceeds Stacy-fication. She has asked him to ?re-kill? her.

    The film?s plot is trippy enough, with horrifying gore effects involving wiggling bits of bodies and lots of blood everywhere. But on top of that, we have trippy Japanese ads (as in the image above, for home chain saws in the ?Bruce Campbell?s Right Hand? line, we have zombies who give off a blue fairy dust that makes their victims docile, and we have a strange group of zombie-killing soldiers called Romeros.

    But then on top of it, there are some secondary ideas about the Stacies being motivated not by hatred or hunger, but by love, and a strange end to the film that suggests a post-war world in which humans and Stacies co-exist and intermarry. That?s right, I said intermarry. I?m not sure what else to say about this film except that it is strange, strange, strange.
  • November 23, 2008
    A good zomibe film with an interesting message but it's a bit drug out. They should have just edited it down a bit. Look for bruce campbell's second hand in this one. wow.
  • June 30, 2008
    Wow...This is a masterpiece of it's own kind! Of it's own kind mind you...
  • February 29, 2008
    Gory, funny, even somewhat touching at points: This is one interesting ride. Fans of the zombie comedy/horror genre, take note. This one is worth a look.
  • January 27, 2008
    A nice take on the zombie movie, with a Japanese slant. Combining humor and horror to spotlight the culture's odd fixation with schoolgirls.

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