Suicide Circle
A famous and highly regarded "edgy" gore thriller... as I was told. Suicide Circle is really just a lucid, odd, movie that has a loose direction and a really odd premise but one that doesn't really leave any taboo intact. It breaks a lot of conventional movie rules and has a striking, but strange, look at the idea of suicide. A detective tries to uncover the reasons for mass suicides all over japan, including 54 girls jumping in front of a train.
Direction becomes a secondary goal later on to a really lucid atmosphere, random jump scares or gory suicide deaths all shown on screen. Girl putting her top half into an electric oven, a woman chopping her left arm off chunk by chunk while smiling and talking to her daughter, a bunch of kids jumping off a 4 story roof and watching their agonizing deaths, etc.
Small animals, children, teenagers and women are also murdered on screen in full detail. This is lucidly strung together. It was harder to follow than most movies simply because of its overused symbolism or just plain weird scenes. People offing themselves in sequence to J-pop, a transsexual playing electric guitar j-pop while a girl gets raped next to him by one of his friends, etc.
There is no real substance or conclusion but as a really odd movie with a lot of kills, it gets high marks for me. As a horror movie? Zip, nadda. Nothing remotely scary about this film.