I've seen plenty of messed up horror films in my life, with Cannibal Holocaust, Zombi 2, and Antropophagus being three of several prominent examples, but this film is plenty messed up. I've watched it on Youtube last night and I have to say that what Unit 731 did in both this movie and in real life is beyond ****ed up. Sure, I didn't have nightmares about it but it sure was memorable in an unpleasant way. While I do qualify as having balls per the topic of this title, I have to say that this is one of those rare horror films that are truer to the genre than many others. Rather than giving you a villain that is cool/likeable/over-the-top/love-to-hate/fear-because-of-what-they-are (i.e. Freddy, Chucky, Jason, the sharks from Jaws, the Creeper, Pinhead and the Cenobites, It as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Dr. Frankenfurter, the entity haunting the ship in Event Horizon, Patrick Bateman, the Crawlers from The Descent, Count Dracula, countless zombies, etc.) subjecting you to horrific images that are just made up (i.e. torture-porn, video nasties, etc.), or giving you victims that are pretty jerks, floozies, etc., this film gives you realistic villains with sympathetic victims and some very brutal inhumane acts that are pretty realistic; no matter who you are, this all this makes for a pretty unpleasant experience that is sure to affect you in some way.
Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger
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