Cinema Holocaust Quickie: UROTSUKIDOJI: LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND

Created on Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:53

Last Updated on Sunday, 02 June 2013 07:43

Written by Emmet "Trash Boat" Kiernan

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Emmet 'Trash Boat' Kiernan returns to the world of Cinema Holocaust with the column's most bizarre entry yet!

Nothing Can Prepare You For… Legend of the Overfiend.

“Mankind, you are an ignorant race, how foolish it is to believe that your kind rules the Earth. Know now that you are not alone.”

The Chojin is coming- a God above all Gods. Destined to be born through the body of a human- this Overfiend is destined to unite the worlds of man, demon and man-beast, and leave the universe in peace and harmony. Sounds simple enough, right?

Okay. Let’s back up a moment.

How the hell is anybody supposed to describe this supremely disturbed, apocalyptic masterpiece of a film?  Where the hell am I even supposed to start in a movie that’s packed with such wall to wall carnage, gore, and sexual depravity that just… escalates and escalates and won’t stop escalating until no stone is left unturned?

Murder, rape, torture, blood splattered superhero battles, time travel, giant monsters, some of the most ridiculously large explosions ever animated- to call this film intense would be a severe understatement. Hell, the first thing we see after that voiceover is a Boschian scene of medieval looking demons molesting a gaggle of quadruple breasted women in an apocalyptic wasteland!

A sensory overload unlike any other.

Overfiend follows the exploits of Megumi and Amano, a brother and sister team of beast-people who have been searching the human world for hundreds of years, hoping to find the mythical Chojin and guide him through his transformation and usher in the age of paradise. We first find them picking through the high school students, trying to find the best candidate. It has to be the strong, charismatic and handsome basketball hero Osaki, right? It couldn’t possibly be the perverted and lovesick little twerp Negumo, whom we first see peeping into the girl’s locker room and masturbating himself raw in the gymnasium… Could it?

Yeah. It’s that guy. Our main character, like seemingly everyone in the film, is a morally reprehensible, manipulative bastard. Although considering some of the other characters we’re forced to meet before the end of the film, Negumo’s strategy of trying to get into a girls pants by pretending to be the guy who saved him from being tentacle raped by her teacher starts to seem tame in comparison to some of the deeds the other guys pull off.

 One particularly happy chappy chops off his own penis, replaces it with a demon-squid dildo thing, murders both his parents and licks up some of the Chojin’s semen to make his new squid-cock nice and large enough to give him demonic powers - and all because no girls would ever speak to him without shoving their feet in his mouth and making a laughing stock of him.

“Lick it! Such a beautiful hot foot! Come on asshole, suck it!”

 Lust controls everyone in Overfiend. It turns the weakest men into monsters, and it simply kills the strong. Nobody benefits from indulging their lust, nobody benefits from acquiring power- as they only use it to act out their darkest, most perverted desires.

In most films, when a hero dies and is resurrected, he returns to save the world- here our hero returns from the grave and instantly rapes a nurse until she explodes, then butchers an entire hospital worth of people and uses their corpses to build himself a new body.

Insert hackneyed, cynical comment about the weirdness of Japan here.

Penises play a HUGE role in this movie, in fact- wait, what’s that? You want me to back up a little? What for? Oh yeah- the tentacle rape. Yeah… This is awkward. Didn’t you know? This movie pretty much invented that twisted little niche! And there’s a lot of it. You can take that as a warning, or a recommendation.

Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yes. Demon cocks! As in life, in Overfiend, sex is everything- the penis is power in this world, and the only dicks that count are the dicks of demons. Human lives are pointless- human penises a pathetic simile of mighty demon penii. Human women are nothing but vessels - sacrificial portals through which the gates of hell can be opened- and the tasting of the blood and semen of any man gives you power over him - definite shades of Barker there.

The surest sign when the Chojin finally reveals himself that he truly is the God of Gods is the fact that he has 8 colossal waving dorks… Which also shoot lasers.

Did I mention how much I love this film?

I’m about to get into spoiler territory here, so if you haven’t seen the film, and you think you can stomach it, or get past the horrifically bad English dub or the bizarrely naïve tone that contrasts with the gruelling, stomach grinding bleak darkness- go check it out, and check back here when you have. I’d hate to ruin some of the nasty surprises the movie has in store for you.

The movie also has the greatest utterance of the word “no!” of all time.

So yeah, the final act plot twist is a real doozy. We find out that NONE of the people we’ve met yet have been the Chojin.  In fact, the titular legend has been so diluted that what’s actually been going on the whole time is that Negumo was supposed to hook up with Okami, impregnate her, and then become that giant monster and destroy the world- so Okami can give birth to the real Chojin. WHO TURNS OUT TO BE GOD. Not some generic Japanese pantheonic God character, but motherfucking God, the creator of everything.

So what do you do when you find out that the enemy you’ve been fighting this whole time turns out to be God himself? Turns out nothing, nothing at all. We get the brief notion that everything is going to be alright when Okami takes control back of her body and begs Negumo - the giant world destroying monster - to kill her and the unborn God inside her- because the power of love can conquer all right?

…right?

FUCK no. The Chojin isn’t having any of that shit. He takes control of both their bodies and starts the killing anew. “You cannot die. It is not your destiny.” Is at once one of the most satisfying and chilling lines in cinema history.

I mean holy crap. Is that not what cinema was invented for? Is that not the most cosmically terrifying Lovecraftian idea ever put down on film? Not only is humanity entirely useless, essentially a world of puppets for demons and super powered beast people- at the end of the day, all of existence is pointless because God just isn’t happy with how everything turned out. So it’s back to the drawing board, nice knowing you all- time to perish in a hail of laser semen.

Bleak, shocking, sexually twisted and filled to the brim with cartoon boobs and tentacle dicks. Overfiend is everything Cinema Holocaust approves of all under one roof. Seek it out if you dare.

Until next time!

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