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Stacy Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Widescreen Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Wea Corp Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 24 Average rating: 3.5 "B Movie with some laughs" The description is real good, but when you start to watch the movie, you realize it's a B-Movie with some American influence (Bruce Campbell and Drew Barrymore). If it was a serious movie, it could have been really good, but it's just a cheezy movie with some good laughs and no nudity. I would watch it on the Sci-Fi channel but never again in my DVD Player. Rent-No Buy-No Cable-Yes "I Sat There With My Jaw On The Floor.................." Well... being a fan of Zombie flicks, this looked like fun. And... as much as I would like to sit here and pick out the positives & negatives in this flick, like I'm some uber-cool B-Flick Aficionado, I must confess, "Stacy" had me slack-jawed & stunned, complete with sights of cartoon question-marks and explanation-points flashing above my head. This is not the goriest movie I have ever seen, nor the sickest, nor the cheesiest. However, this is probably one of the most bizarre movies I have ever seen in my life. I'm writing this immediately after checking out the flick, without doing any research in re who wrote it, who directed it, etc; which is fun, because it leaves me here, typing & wondering with astonishment, WHO THOUGHT UP THIS STORY, AND WHAT DREAM OR HALLUCINATION DID THEY JUST WAKE UP FROM? The plot involves an epidemic of NDH: Near Death Happiness, afflicting girls between the ages of 15-17. The NDH-stricken girls go through approximately one week of sheer emotional bliss, elated yet fully aware of what's going on. After the elation phase, they drop dead, then become reanimated, devouring any human within their grasp. Unable to find a cure for the reanimated schoolgirls, which become nicknamed "Stacys," the government has produced "Romero Squads," (Too cool! For those of you who have delved into Zombie movies, The Romero Squads are a tribute to "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead" creator George Romero) who are responsible for the "Rekill," the offing of the dead girl brought back to life. It gets weird...even considering it's a flick about hungry walking dead folk. Rather than mass despair and suicides by adolescent girls fearing of NDH infection, the girls dream about the knight-in-shining-armour, the sweetheart who will love them, and then valiantly rekill them, once their corpses rise to nibble on the living! See, in this story, aside from Romero Squad members, the only folk allowed to rekill a Stacy are family members or boyfriends. Which brings us to the black-market Stacy killers, comprised of three stunningly beautiful warrior-girls in the NDH age range, resigned to becoming Stacys one of these days, but idealistic on who will rekill them. They illegally rekill Stacys, hired by Stacy family members who can't find it in them to slaughter their dead loved-ones. The girls are saving their bounty profits to hire a specific dream-boy to rekill them, a sexy young pop-star they are ga-ga over. This is one original living dead flick that I highly recommend. I've seen bloodier, I've seen higher-budget, but I can't recall seeing one this weird. Despite the storyline of gorgeous schoolgirls, the focus is not on the kinky, but on schoolgirl crushes, true love, and bizarre sentimental twists from start to finish. There are many living-dead films that spotlight the gory (1980's Zombie, various other Euro-Zombie flicks), others that spotlight the campiness (Return of the Living Dead series), and those that run on the suspense and terror (the original "Night of the Living Dead"). This flick combines all three: blood & body parts flying right and left, B-Star Bruce Campbell hawking his own brand of chainsaw on infomercials, and the public despairing over the only grim solutions to the Stacy epidemic. Give this DVD a try, it's worth the time and dough! "Love and zombies, Japan's social issues" I think a lot of people griped about the love story in STACY that seemed incongruous but I think it was the whole point of the movie. Young girls dying and craving flesh. They starved [emotionally] and woke from the dead hungering for blood or as I believe any human contact. In Japan, the librarians wear whistles in the building so they can call for help if a male patron is bothering female staff. There are seperate female trains because molestation of adult women is bad. Japan is still behind the times on equal rights for women and sexual harrassment in the workplace. SO, when the Stacy's happen, women become these dangerous things and suddenly the men are sad and lacking and have to butcher their girlfriends and daughters to keep them coming back from the dead and eating them. Even though Japan's women have been socially butchered for centuries being second class citizens. And the phenom is mentioned as happening around the world. In the end the men learn to love the Stacys and miraculously they stop eating people and a new race of men is formed and a peaceful world is created...and the new Bible...the play written by the puppeteer...itself a love story. In a nutshell, love the women in your life or they'll come back and eat you. "That crazy J-Horror!!" On the surface, Stacy is low-budget schlock, a film that is decidedly amateurish in many aspects. Shot on digital video on a very tight budget it has nevertheless many charms, it's a film where you can tell that the filmmakers had lots of talent and lots of really cool ideas. But oh, that budget...If you can get past the cheapness of it all, devouted fans of Asian horror will love this apocalyptic zombie tale that pays homage to past classic films of the undead. In the beginning of the 21st century girls aged 15-17 began to die and spring back to life as zombies. People coined the term "Stacy" for them. Stacies are obviously very dangerous and must be killed but one has to abide by the "Stacies law" which says that only boyfriends and family members can kill a Stacy. If Stacies go astray and can't be killed by the ones they love then the job belongs to the Romero Repeat Kill troup, who use chainsaws called the "Bruce Campbell right hand #2" to kill the stacies. To properly kill a Stacy, it must be decapitated into 165 pieces. One thing I particularly enjoyed was the explanations behind the Stacy phenomenon. The film goes into substantial length to describe the cause and aftereffects through a narrator, various news reports and scientific explanations from a doctor who studies the Stacies. I must say I prefer this approach (as used in the classic vamp novel "I am legend") compared to Zombie films that just throw you into a decayed world without bothering to explain how it got to be that way in the first place. As for the gore, people who choose to view the film simply for this reason will certainly not be disappointed, we're talking no-holds barred mondo splatter here. Again, the budget kind of hinders the quality of the gore in the first place but nevertheless there's something very disturbing about watching cute little Japanese girls in school outfits getting hacked to 165 bloody pieces with a chainsaw. Stacy is quirky, funny and very bizarre. It contains a number of inventive concepts that a highly seasoned zombie film watcher as myself had never seen before. But when all is said and done, in the end "Stacy" is not about zombies, or gore, or even horror. It's a story about love. I know that might be hard to believe but the centerpiece of the story is about a guy and his girlfriend who is about to turn into a Stacy and the emotional pain that this realization does to both of them. The story is filled with heartfelt human tragedy and philosophies about love that are genuinely touching, although not everyone is going to understand this; Stacy is the epitomy of quirky, offbeat Japanese humour that novice viewers of Asian films might have troubling appreciating but I loved it. "DO NOT RENT OR BUY THIS GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!" I rented this crap thinking it was going to be semi-good, but it's not. The filming looks like it was done with a 100 dollar camcorder. Acting, and special efx really poor. Better off renting original zombie movies such as night, day, and dawn of the dead. I rent alot of b-flick horror movies, so i know whats good or not. This movie sux with a capital "S".