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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 "what the ?" Interesting, shot-on-video low budget horror from Japan that works quite well in some places but is just plain silly in others. If you're looking for gross out effects that are completely over the top then look no further. Some of the imagery is quite haunting actually. "A movie about Love" Sometimes I think other reviewers turn their brains off when they watch a movie. I thought I was buying a gore movie about zombies. When I watched my new purchase, I learned that I had actually bought a deeply intense and emotional story about Love. Girls need love, and they crave it badly. This movie does have a lot of gore. Pretty good gore, too. But it is all just background. The Bruce Campbell brand chain saw might seem a little cheesy, but it just adds to the nice atmosphere of the movie. There is a lot to learn from this movie, and it warrants several watchings to truely grasp the deepness of its message. "You always kill the ones you love." STACY takes place in a world where teenaged girls everywhere are succumbing to a mysterious condition known as "near death happiness." These girls fall into a dreamlike, ecstatic state before suddenly expiring - and shortly thereafter, rising again as cannibalistic zombies. There is no cure, so parents are urged to kill their own daughters. If they can't do the job themselves, special troops can be called in to do it for them. An insert included with the DVD package talks about a Japanese concept that describes the obsession many people have with innocence and beauty and things they can't have, and also the notion that by destroying something, you set it free. Even though this is touched on near the end of the film, it is a bit difficult to ascribe such depth to a film in which girls in bunny suits hawk chainsaws dubbed "Bruce Campbell's right hand" on TV for the purpose of using it on NDH victims, and in which a young man embraces an undead girl (who is gagged for his protection, of course) and claims she is his lover. Had the film been more serious than silly, I'd be more inclined to find meaning in it. (I can't help but think such a film could have been quite good.) In any case, you can take it or leave the critical analysis as you please; whatever works for you. As it stands, STACY is an often funny, gory, moderately entertaining movie. It is also - strangely - occasionally sweet, although again it is hard to take it too seriously. If you are into zombies or schoolgirls or both, and you enjoy the zany Asian attitude toward horror, you will probably enjoy this movie on some level. DVD notes: This release from Synapse is pretty basic. English subtitles are optional, and default to on which is appreciated. There is also a trailer. The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen. "In all honesty..." This film is a guilty pleasure if there ever was one. It ranks right up there with ABBA Gold in terms of guilty pleasures. While not the best movie ever made it does have some strong points. Frankly it could have been an honestly moving and heart-wrenching film had it not been so badly acted and silly. From what I understand the movie "Stacy" has nothing to do with the book on which it is based except that girls are dying and returning from the dead to consume human flesh. Go ahead and lay down some bucks for this film and try to be open minded while watching it. Hey, its better than that crap from French film maker Jean Rollin. "MOST DISTURB MOVIE EVER MADE!!!" What can I say about Stacy, it most disturbed movie ever made, but I really enjoyed this movie. I found this movie to be like a bad car accident you just cannot resist watching this movie. I mean one point one character says that he is love with one the Stacies, and want to run away with her. And at one point they say that Stacies and men end up have offspring, which is so wrong on many levels I mean (...) is messed up. I like the little Easter egg within this movie the Romeos, the army that hunts the Stacies, which in tribute to horror legend George Romero, and The Bruce Campbell right hand saws, which is reference to Bruce Campbell's famous role as Ashley (Ash) J. Williams. I would have say this film is guilt little pleasure (...)