おすすめ / WE RECOMMEND: Calamity of a Zombie Girl / あるゾンビ少女の災難
5/04/2024
私たちはモンスターが主人公のホラー映画が大好きだが、『あるゾンビ少女の災難』はそれを見事にやってのけた好例だ。
私たちはモンスターが主人公のホラー映画が大好きだが、『あるゾンビ少女の災難』はそれを見事にやってのけた好例だ。
We love horror movies where the monsters are the protagonists, and "Calamity of a Zombie Girl" is a great example of how to pull this off.

また、どうでもいいような裏設定や、忘れられないどんでん返しもある。
The plot is simple: greedy, selfish humans disturb the dead by stealing something that belongs to them. The undead mummies, who are the most sympathetic characters in the entire film, try to get back what is stolen from them.
Also, a backstory that you don't care about, and a plot twist you won't forget.




私たちのような文化人は、この映画を単に「ホラー」と呼ぶだろう。
Squeamish viewers will dismiss this film as being just another 'trashy' J-Horror flick. What with its shock value, over-the-top violence, fetish exploitation, unlikable characters doing unlikable things, and frequent fades-to-black.
Cultured people, like ourselves, would simply call this film "horror".


西洋のホラー映画では、ハッピーエンドを得るために、人間の登場人物に止められない超自然的な連続殺人鬼を倒してもらいたいものだ。しかし、登場人物があまりに憎めないため、ついモンスターを応援してしまったり、モンスターがあまりに強すぎるため、主人公たちが何をしようとも、最後には難なく勝利してしまったりする。これらすべてが、容赦なく暗いストーリーの中で展開されるため、観る者は何が起こるのか無関心になってしまう。
Not only would we call this 'horror', we would call it that rare monster slasher film made for people who love to root for the monsters.
In western horror films, you want our human characters to defeat the unstoppable supernatural serial killers to earn their happy ending. Yet, either said characters can come across as so unlikeable that you end up rooting for the monsters, or the monsters are so overpowered that they effortlessly win in the end regardless of what the protagonists do. All of this during an unrelentingly dark storyline that leaves the viewer apathetic to what happens.


The hilarious and heart-warming relationship between the two zombie girls provide a sense of emotional depth that so many other Japanese horror works have tried, and failed, to accomplish. By making the true antagonists unlikeable, and the monster protagonists vulnerable, "Calamity of a Zombie Girl" provides a breath of fresh air to the usual template of Japanese horror.









