How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, an office lady and a school girl) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags!
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Red Room is a delightful take on reality shows, rendering them to the most sickest degree. This movie is low budgeted and you can tell, considering the whole movie seems to stay in one or two rooms. That's not why I only rated it a 5 though, my problem with this movie is that even though it only runs for an hour, it is still too long. The scene after scene of sick stunts get dull after the first 40 minutes and it is more down to how there isn't much depth and too much "look how disgusted we can make you" moments.However Red Room doesn't TRY to have depth, it's only sole purpose is to disgust and shock the viewer and it achieves this triumphantly. This is a bleak movie and you're more than likely to feel sympathetic towards the main male character and his puppy love. The other characters however are SO dislikable that you don't really mind if they get violently hurt throughout the movie. And maybe that's where the faults for Red Room lie; the unsympathetic tendencies you get from most of the main characters makes this dull and just a shock fest. I did like the colour arrangements for the movie as everything is tinted a dark, hovering red enhancing the saddo grasp of the film.It's just really what you want out of a movie, if you are fine with just taking in the constant sickening stunts then you'll enjoy this.
This movie sucks so much #$%% it could have been a septic tank cleaning truck. Actually it sucks so much crap it could fill in for a sewage treatment plant.It is one of the most ridiculous and stupid wastes of film I have seen in recent times. I felt like someone had tortured me for the relatively short length that I was exposed to this garbage.I love most of the Asian movies and have a huge collection of stuff that most people consider crap, so I think I can judge this film with a good eye for what makes up the Japanese extreme movie scene.I am a true horror freak and love extreme and nasty movies, but this one just made me want to punch the guy who made it in the gonads. Someone should have bitten his schlong off instead of the actor in the scene where that act of nasty and sickening crotch desecration takes place. That was about the only time where I thought that this thing had a bit of gore that I could get into, albeit while I was grimacing and covering my own crotch in horror.Th only other part of the movie that had any real good shock value was the scene where the "chick" pees in the other ones mouth and she swallows it. I won't spoil it for those who insist on watching this dreck, it is actually the only part of this stupid film that made it almost worth the time just to see that scene. The c@#K biting scene was the only other time I thought it was almost worth the effort to put up with the rest of the film.Save you time for a good movie, there are a lot of very good and decent movies in the genre that composes the Asian horror/gore/torture films.This one should have been left on the cutting room floor.
They had Kings in Japan? Shouldn't it be called The Emperor Game? Whatever.The King Game. Four people enter a room. Each gets a card. One card has a Crown displayed on it. The other three cards are numbered 1 - 3. Whoever gets the Crown card is obviously the King of this round. The King then chooses up to 2 numbers to play his/her game. The King doesn't know which number belongs to which person, which makes the game even more interesting. The goal then is to make the participants quit the game. You can quit at anytime, but you will leave empty handed and you certainly won't get the grand prize of 10 Million Yen. You accomplish the "challenge", you get to play another round. So whoever is the last person standing, The King, will win the money. And most importantly with this game, anything goes.Red Room is my second movie with this director. The first was Muzan-E, which is considered by many to be one of the most disturbing flicks out there. And I'd agree. This film isn't really on par with Muzan on the disturbing level, but on a sick entertainment level, it's much better. It starts off almost timidly with the "contestants" not really sure how extreme they should go, but eventually the movie hits a great stride and the vomit, urine and blood begin to flow. I also have to add it has a great opening scene, which is very reminiscent to KIDS' opening scene. My only "major" gripe with the film was that a couple scenes of "challenge" would kind of drag a little bit. The chair scene in particular. Though at least that scene ended with a nice laugh. Red Room is easily one of the most entertaining flicks of this nature I've seen in a while. I really dug the whole game idea. The movie made me laugh a good amount, it had nudity, sleaze, blood, and perverse situations. I can't see this movie disappointing too many fans of this type of film. Sure didn't disappoint me. I'm pretty pscyhed that there's a Red Room 2. 8.5 outta 10
I am a relative minor in relations to extreme Japanese cinema viewing. While I am not daft enough to call this "the most disgusting and shocking Jap film ever", Red Room was rather enjoyable for me.First thing I have to say is that this would have been a far less disgusting/shocking film if it weren't for the fantastically repulsive sound. The squelches of "insertion", the sloppy kissing sounds, and the pseudo-porn music were truly graphic, and vulgar to the extreme.Although this is a pretty rough film in parts, with enough pissing, cutting, inserting and the like, some parts were funny, like the only guy continually saying "I'm sorry" (those two words are about 75 % of his lines), and a hilarious secret about one of the characters, which I won't ruin for you here.Other than that, there isn't much to talk about. There's a bit of nudity (the 27 year old chick is hot), the set is nice, and the whole premise of a "last person remaining gets the money" hasn't been over done in horror (yet).All in all, I found this an enjoyable way to spend an hour.