Stacy DVD Review
In Stacy, girls who reach the age of 15 to 17 years old die and become flesh hungry zombies. The term “Stacy” was coined for them and entered the vernacular the word over. Stacies don’t die when shot in the head, they need to be hacked into 165 pieces which is called a “repeat kill”. The Romero Repeat Kill Corps is an organization who job it is to do just that, sort of like a SWAT team that repeat kills as a career. Shibukawa is a lonely puppeteer who meets a young girl who is about to became a Stacy, who takes a shine to him and wants him to repeat kill her when she becomes a Stacy. She even buys him a Bruce Campbell’s Right Hand 2, the most popular brand chainsaw for repeat killing Stacies in Japan.
There’s not a whole lot of plot to Stacy. It’s as if someone imagined a world where adolescent girls turned into a zombies, just thought of a bunch of stuff that could happen and filmed it, not that that’s not entertaining enough in this film. I’m certain there is some sort of metaphor that I’m missing here, but I just haven’t grasped it. Stacy is chock full of jokes and gags. It’s not so much a horror movie as a black comedy or slapstick (or could I coin the term “slashstick”?).
Stacy has tons of juicy gore and blood splattered all over the place. I think that 75% of the characters in this film had theirs heads cast for various special effects reasons. They definitely go over the top with the gore in a very humorous way with this flick. There’s nothing spectacular about the zombie make-up, it does it’s job, but the special effects budget was certainly a priority to the makers of this film.
Stacy was a mildly enjoyable film if only for the gore and jokes, like I said, there’s not a whole lot of plot to it. For fans of goofy Japanese cinema and gore-hounds alike, Stacy is for you. Zombie fans might dig all the genre specific gags, but they might be sick of that shtick by now too. If your time is not precious, check out Stacy for shits and giggles.
