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Crazy Lips

Video Team // Unrated // August 17, 2004
List Price: $19.99 [Buy now and save at Amazon]

Review by Daniel W. Kelly | posted September 16, 2004 | E-mail the Author
The Movie:
"From the men who brought you Ringu," promises the burst on the cover of this DVD, comes the intentionally completely different Crazy Lips, an utter Japanese schlockfest.

The Story:
As Crazy Lips opens, we are presented with a bevy of news reporters outside a home, speculating on what's going on inside. It is believed that a serial killer who chops off the heads of women lives in the house.

Inside, the alleged serial killer's mother and two sisters worry about his whereabouts. So they call in a weird psychic and her creepy male sidekick to determine who really killed the victims.

But there's a cost for the psychic's services. What follows is a whole lot of sex between the creepy male sidekick and the mother and daughters—right in front of each other, and sometimes participating in the way of holding each other down (seems the family who stays together gets laid together)—an obsession with adult breast feeding, a focus on inhaling the scent of a woman on one's fingers, tons of vomiting, a good dose of necrophilia combined with anal sex, a surreal musical number (that fails to include subtitles), a slutty FBI agent who for some reason shouts everything she says—in English, and a martial arts fight at the end that's like a slapstick Jackie Chan routine with a really bad musical score. Unfortunately, the headless ghosts that promised to add a terrifying element to this film were forgotten about once the sex started.

If this type of film is your aphrodisiac, beat yourself senseless….

The DVD

Video:
The aspect ratio is 1:85:1, in anamorphic widescreen . There are lots of tears on the print throughout, the image is soft and blurry, the colors are washed out, and the dark areas are grey.

Sound:
There's a 5.1 surround option that for some reason isn't mentioned on the DVD case, which only mentions the Dolby 2.0 stereo option. The 5.1 track is front heavy, and not separated very well. It comes across as one big wall of sound most of the time.

Extras:
Trailers—for Crazy Lips and its sequel, Gore from Outer Space.

Making of—about 20 minutes, this is truly behind-the-scenes, just filming the production crew as they film their movie. There's a lengthy scene in which the crew discusses the slutty FBI agent's panties as she just lays there. The subtitles carry through to this bonus feature.

Interviews—filmed interviews with the writer, director, and producer, in which they all readily admit to wanting to make a tasteless, cheap movie that was nothing like Ringu. Subtitles carry through to this bonus feature.

Final Thoughts:
With Crazy Lips, the intent was to make a shocking budget movie that was part horror, part porn, part action, part comedy. I wasn't shocked, scared, turned on, or smiling. I was bored. Anyone can be this gross on their own if they just allow their mind to go there rather than transferring their fear of their deepest, darkest subconscious thoughts to someone else's creation. The best part of the DVD was watching the interviews in which the creators unashamedly admit their desire to make the film exactly what it is.

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