welcome to camp telophase

I got my DVD of Death Trance today and settled in to watch the extras. The Making Of is unfortunately way too short, but there's a fairly decent interview with the star of the movie. And it's hilarious to realize just how seriously they were taking this thing.

There is, however, something that Tak Sakaguchi, the aforementioned star, ( would like us all to know... )

And now we commence Part the Fourth of the immortal Death Trance. You should all go out and buy this movie now or at the very least put it in your Netflix queue. The point at which the motorcycle showed up was the point at which I knew I HAVE TO OWN THIS MOVIE and loaded Amazon.com. My copy should arrive tomorrow. :D I look forward to the "Making of Death Trance" featurette in the extras.

On to the recap...

( I AM NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE THROBBING PENIS-SWORD )

...Which seems like an opportune time to break off. Coming soon to an LJ near you: DEATH TRANCE PART THE FIFTH! SOMETIMES A CIGAR IS REALLY A THROBBING PENIS-SHAPED SWORD

Herein commences the second part of the recap of the Death Trance movie of AWESOME.

Warning: we may be getting into a slight R rating here for a PHALLIC SWORD. I mean, moreso than usual.

( ROAST BEAST )

...And there we will stop part 2. Part 3 coming!

Wow.

All right, my friends, I have just finished watching the ultimate shounen experience that is inexplicably known as Death Trance.

It has:

-- martial arts
-- sword fu
-- gun fu
-- motorcycle fu*
-- a swordsman dragging a coffin wrapped in chains around
-- followed by a little girl
-- Steven Seagal's son
-- and his hair
-- a bazooka
-- vampire spiders
-- ninja zombies in ninja jester hats
-- phallic weapons
-- mysterious monks
-- mysterious swordsmen
-- great heaping wodges of symbolism
-- spewing rose petals**


You'll have to wait until this weekend for me to give you a long recap of it, but my finger was spasmodically hitting alt-C throughout the entire thing, and I took NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE screencaps, so I can assure you I have thorough proof of this movie's awesometasticness.

THIS MOVIE IS BETTER THAN AABRA KA DAABRA AND THAT IS A BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL THAT RIPS OFF BOTH HARRY POTTER AND CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

THAT IS HOW AWESOME DEATH TRANCE IS.

* This was the point at which I paused the movie, loaded Amazon.com, and bought the damn thing.

** This was the point at which I could not stop laughing.

You know what's awesome? When a writer goes "You know what would make this movie better? NINJA ZOMBIES IN JESTER HATS." And the director says "YES."