Zombie holocausts and demonic scourges come in all kinds of cinematic flavors, but they¡¯re seldom as joyous as the one depicted in Kenichi Ugana¡¯s ¡°Visitors: Complete Edition.¡± This is a film in which ordinary people get transformed into monsters worthy of ¡°The Exorcist¡± ¡ª ripped flesh, rotatable heads, limitless quantities of ectoplasmic vomit ¡ª and they¡¯re clearly having a blast.
As with his earlier ¡°Extraneous Matter¡± (2020), Ugana has taken a snappy short film and extended it to an hour-long runtime, like a stand-up comic seeing how long they can draw out a gag before getting to the punchline. The original 15-minute ¡°Visitors¡± ¡ª which screened at numerous international festivals in 2021 ¡ª is , but the chance to watch it with a live audience is reason enough to catch this extended theatrical release.
The short now serves as an opening act, and it¡¯s a wild one: an exuberant bloodbath in the vein of Sam Raimi¡¯s ¡°The Evil Dead,¡± confined almost entirely to a one-story shack in rural Chiba Prefecture. That¡¯s where a trio of friends have driven in search of their incommunicado bandmate, Sota (Ryuta Endo), only to find themselves in the middle of a demonic outbreak.
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