Tasteless film.

The deaths in this film are a bit over the top...but only slightly more so than those "puzzles" in the Saw series. And as for the so-called "childhood dream crap", I think they're trying to show how hopes and wishes--complicated by personal tragedies and a very tense political climate--could drive someone into an irrational murderous rage.

And that this could be a never-ending cycle.

I just found it tonally uneven.

Given the subject matter I was expecting a darkly humorous film, but instead we get earnest drama punctuated by some really nasty murder scenes that linger on prolonged deaths, and then thrown into that mix there's occasional, incongruous comedy. It's like they couldn't decide if it was a serious film or not.

I do think some of the killings had gratuitous elements that were really unpleasant, but I had to laugh at the bedroom killings.


"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."

One sad thing is that there is good film-making here. It is not a cheap production at all. The problem is the subject matter and plot. There is nothing of redeeming quality. There are no good people/characters. Selfishness and exploitation is rampant and it is excessively gory. Even the crimes, although "successfully" pulled off, do not achieve their ultimate purpose as the housing crisis kicks in. What is the point to it all?

i liked the social commentary, hated the movie... honestly felt ripped off at the end. but it did have me thinking about lower class japan, so thats something.

If those that feel entertained by this do not question why they do not find a pregnant woman with a suction bag over her head being suffocated whilst having a miscarriage as wrong on a very fundamental level then there`s obviously something missing within themselves mentally. If this is what is now called entertainment there`s definately something gone wrong with us. `Inside` was another film that disgusted me and had similar vile and sick scenes of a pregnant woman being murdered in the most violent ways imaginable. The extensive lingering where the suffering was greatest was also very questonable. I have been a major collector of horror movies for decades but this wasn`t a film to be entertained by, it was a glaring statement about how sick an audience we have become in our desensitized world where the butchering of bodies and the intense suffering of victims has become a piece of `fun`. This is not horror, this is porn for the mentally unstable.

of course it's completely tasteless and over-the-top, but i thought it worked extremely well both as a satirical black comedy and as a character-driven thriller. didn't find it all "sappy", nor did i think that the murders were in any way justified. honestly the best slasher movie i've seen in ages.

9/10

I agree. The film is sick with it's lingering death scenes. It's also boring as hell.

stupid people will see the character motivation as thematically acceptable explanation for the ridiculous killings. intelligent people will see it as a lazily written excuse to film simulated killings in a cheap attempt to shock the audience. for the most part, they fail, since it becomes so outlandish as to be comedic.