If Your Life is a Hell... by Demonic-Pokeyfruit on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

My friends and I used to push this movie on everyone back in the tape-trading days. One of us came up with this pitch: "The first few minutes are total saccharin, but bear with it, because after that, this film becomes TRULY EVIL!"

I love this movie. Its right up there with Baghi and You are Umosu.

Here is an old thought experiment of mine:

Imagine a parent in the early 1980's renting this tape to use as a babysitter, watching the first few minutes and deciding it was safe for their very young child. Then starting the VHS player up, and going off to yard to mow the lawn.

Imagine the effect upon the child. Imagine the parent asking the child wheat they'd learned form this film.

"I learned that the world deals out little but pain, but you can use that pain to grow fangs, and use those fangs to get revenge on the bad man who killed your mother."

Imagine the parent's reaction.