TWO MEGA-RARE MOVIES IN ONE PACKAGE

FILM ONE
GUZOO: THE THING FORSAKEN BY GOD (1986)
director: Kazuo (Gaira) Komizu
starring: Yumiko Ishikawa · Naomi Kajitani · Kyôko Komiyama · Hidemi Maruyama · Tomoko Kujô

FILM TWO
GAKIDAMA [DEMON WITHIN] [also known as TASTIEST FLESH] (1986)
director: Masatoshi Sukita
starring: Kazuyo Matsui · Kyôzô Nagatsuka · Ichirô Ogura · Yôsuke Saitô

   

GUZOO is the debut short film from Kazuo [Gaira] Komizu, a popular cult director (responsible for ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN, LIVING DEAD IN TOKYO BAY, RUSTED BODY, ENTRAILS OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN). The story deals with a group of girls who vacation at a remote house in the wilderness where a horrible creature with tentacles tries to eat them one-by-one. Perhaps Komizu was inspired by H P Lovecraft's Cthulhu and, on that level, it delivers in spades. But this film is a sharp departure from the erotic Pink thrillers that would follow. Despite the lack of nudity, the girls are cute and the gore FX are surprisingly well done. Director Kazuo Komizu - always the innovator [he DID make Japan's first zombie movie with the aforementioned LIVING DEAD IN TOKYO BAY] - was also the first with "thrashing, slimy tentacles of horror," a couple years before UROTSUKIDOJI (LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND).

PLEASE NOTE: Even though the credit sequence claims this is "Part One," there is no Part II. In an Asian Cult Cinema interview, Gaira himself says it was never made.