DEDfest, Rue Morgue, Sushi Typhoon and Media Blasters present:
SPLATTER MATTERS – a benefit in support of recovery efforts focusing on the devastation of the Tohoku Earthquake of March 11th and the subsequent tsunami, via Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund (japansociety.org/earthquake)
First off is HELLDRIVER
An alien plague splits Japan into two – the relatively untouched southern half and a north overrun with bloodthirsty ghouls… WELCOME TO ZOMBIE WORLD!
Hope arrives in the form of Kika (Yumiko Hara), a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kika leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina from AUDITION and TOKYO GORE POLICE) and put an end to the plague of the living dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half of Japan, refuses to lay down and die.
Visionary filmmaker Yoshihiro Nishimura’s first solo directorial effort since TOKYO GORE POLICE is an epic, apocalyptic road movie featuring non-stop action and over-the-top splatter. The long-awaited realization of his dreams, HELLDRIVER is Nishimura’s bid to create the ultimate zombie film.
The showdown for the future of Japan is at hand and no one, living or dead, may survive to see it!
PLUS!!
MACHINE GIRL
A young Japanese school girl becomes the victim of a vicious Yakuza clan recollecting a debt owed by her troubled brother – a debt carved out of her arm and her brother’s heart. Bloodied and broken, she staggers to the shop of a machinist who feels her plight and helps her build an array of deadly weaponry to replace her missing limb, weapons that she will use to exact revenge and send the Yakuza Straight to hell!
Machine gun arms, deadly flying guillotines, and drill bras are just a few of the twisted items on display in MACHINE GIRL!
SPATTER MATTERS Double Feature: Helldriver and Machine Girl!
Friday, May 6, starting at 7PM
