Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (AKA The Japanese Evil Dead)

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It opens with a prologue set in early 1970s Tokyo, wherein Fukazawa appears as an analogue for Ash — sporting perfectly quaffed dark hair, clad in a blue button-up shirt, armed with a shovel — and proceeds to defeat his knife-wielding girlfriend and bury her under the floorboards of his house. They invade like a viral infection via technology, plunging the globe into hopeless despair and death.

Remi Weekes’s feature debut transforms the refugee experience into a petrifying horror film with expertly crafted scares. When a bodybuilder, his ex-girlfriend and a professional psychic enter a haunted house, they soon find themselves trapped within it.But inside the house a dark secret lingers and they find themselves trapped and tormented by a relentless ghost with a 30 year grudge.

While the spectral encounters bring the frights, Pulse has a way of wielding its existential horror that cuts straight to the bone. Beyond being an effective horror movie, it feels like it was made by a group of friends for fun rather than commerce.The film is not just a perfect homage to the series it is indebted to – it manages to take the blueprint that was laid out for it and take horror-comedy to new heights. Only, as the prologue reveals, Naoto’s dad had murdered his lover there 30 years earlier in the early ’70s, and buried her corpse beneath the floorboards. Ich ziehe an dieser Stelle zwar meinen Hut vor Shinichi Fukazawa's Ehrgeiz, Durchhaltevermögen und Ambition seinen ersten eigenen Horrorfilm zu drehen und sich somit einen Jugendtraum zu erfüllen, doch all die investierten Jahre mit Änderungen in der Inszenierung, Post-Production usw.