{"id":16952,"date":"2024-10-31T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2024-10-30T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:46:23","slug":"horrors-of-malformed-men-1969-teruo-ishii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16952","title":{"rendered":"Horrors of Malformed Men (1969, Teruo Ishii)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild 1920’s-set mad-scientist movie. The title and concept are more fun than the experience of watching it. I fell asleep with my finger on the screenshot key and had to delete ten thousand files the next day.<\/p>\n

Can’t say you weren’t warned, I’m superdeformed (dig it):<\/em>
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Young doctor (lead actor from the also-nutty Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell<\/a><\/em>) escapes from an asylum, seeking a half-remembered island, and finds a doomed circus girl who also half-remembers it. He makes his way to the shore right as his doppelganger dies, so he pretends to be that guy, saying “actually I’m still alive,” then hangs out with his weird family and sleeps with his sister.<\/p>\n

Chair goals:<\/em>
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He makes it out to the family island and finds his madman web-handed dad who deforms people, and hopes to one day deform everyone… one at a time I guess, since he doesn’t have a Magneto-scale operation here. Dad reveals various hidden identities and plots and backstories – such as when he locked his wife in a cave, and she fed on the crabs that fed on her dead lover – then a cop who’d been posing as a family servant explains some more.<\/p>\n

Dad is a disability-rights advocate:<\/em>
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But it’s true he has issues:<\/em>
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After all this, the young doctor’s sister-lover reaches the correct conclusion: “We will embrace atop the fireworks mortar. We will scatter magnificently across the great sky.”<\/p>\n

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Wild 1920’s-set mad-scientist movie. The title and concept are more fun than the experience of watching it. I fell asleep with my finger on the screenshot key and had to delete ten thousand files the next day. Can’t say you weren’t warned, I’m superdeformed (dig it): Young doctor (lead actor from the also-nutty Goke, Body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,218,2565,470,384,1215,36,1422,2347,607,3342],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-circus","tag-crabs","tag-identical-twins","tag-incest","tag-island","tag-japan","tag-mad-scientist","tag-mutation","tag-suicide","tag-teruo-ishii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16975,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions\/16975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}