Satomi's brother is being accused for killing innocent school girls, chopping of their heads. While the brother seems nowhere to be found, Satomi, her sister and mother are constantly being harassed by reporters outside the house, and even by the police until the brother is captured. Since Satomi is sure her brother is innocent, she contacts a psychic in order to help her find him to clear his name. But it doesn't take long before the psychic and her assistant takes over and starts to control the family. Now, Satomi with her newly discovered psychic powers, must find a way to fight back to save her family and her brother.
Crazy Lips is a truly bizarre and strange Japanese horror movie, that has some extremely black humour in it as well. It's a low-budget flick with some really bizarre, twisted and sick scenes, and I'm not sure if people into Asian horror will appreciate it. It deals with necrophilia, rapes and suicides among other things, but it sounds much worse than it really is. These are things considered sick, but here it's neither scary or disturbing, it's just very stupid.
When watched Crazy Lips, it made me think about Miike's Visitor Q as they are a bit similar at certain places, and they are both really bizarre and weird movies. Now, I like most of Miike's movies, but I think Visitor Q really blows, and so does this one. It's not that I didn't understand it, it was just not very good. But if you like Visitor Q, then maybe you should give Crazy Lips a shot too, not saying that it is a clone, but they are somewhat similar at times.
Crazy Lips had a real low-budget feel to it, sometimes when watching these kinda flicks that you know had a low budget, they still can look pretty good every now and then. This does not, but it's not because of that reason that I'm saying that it is a bad flick. I can't say that it's slow, because a lot of things happen, some that are quite entertaining as well, or shocking, depending on your personal taste. But all these scenes that are "nasty" eventually turns out not to be very nasty after all. I hate to watch rapes on film, but here it was actually nothing, it all ends up just feeling dumb.
It has a lot of bizarre scenes and a lot of weird situations to offer, but none of them are really effective. Except for Visitor Q, at times it also feels like watching Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies as well, that with it being over-the-top, feature some stupid dialogue and some gore among other things. Not really sure about the acting, but can't say that it is really bad. I guess it has the kind of acting a movie like this needs. It's not your normal type of flick, and even if some of the acting sucks, it fits the whole concept of the movie if you know what I mean.
Only part of Crazy Lips that I enjoyed was in the end when you got to a lot of people fighting in a forest. It had some gore to it, and it was quite funny as well. Other than that, the movie kinda sucked and I really couldn't recommend it. There's also a sequel to Crazy Lips called Gore from Outer Space, but after having to sit through this one, I'm not sure I can take something similar for a long time.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2000
DIRECTOR: Hirohisa Sasaki
WRITING CREDITS: Hirohisa Sasaki
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Hitomi Miwa, Kazuma Suzuki, Ren Osugi
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 85 min
RATING: 2/10
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