Helldriver

If ever a movie needed to come with its own splatter guard, this is it. As anyone who has seen some of his earlier films, like Tokyo Gore Police or The Machine Girl, will tell you, director Yoshihiro Nishimura has never been shy about spraying buckets of blood and gore across the screen. They will also tell you that he does it with such absolute glee that it’s hard to be too horrified by what you see, as long as you’re not too squeamish to begin with. Helldriver takes place in an apocalyptic future where half of Japan has been turned into crazed alien zombies and the other half seem to be addicted to the powder made from the ground horns that sprout from the alien zombie’s foreheads. It’s up to Kika (Yumiko Hara), a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart, to save the day by killing the zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina). It’s a wild ride.