Versus
There are 666 portals to the 'other side'. the 444th is in the Forest of Resurrection. Two escaped convicts meet up with a Yakuza gang that are supposed to be taking them to safety. However there is another agenda at play. Their seemingly immortal boss wants to open the portal in the forest and the convicts and a female hostage who is brought to the scene seem to play a key role in this plan. However one of the escaped cons is a belligerent trouble maker and things go quickly wrong. With hordes of gun wielding zombies thrown into the mix it quickly descends into all out war with the Hero and the Yakuza battling each other and the undead.
To say the plot of Versus is baffling is an understatement. However the plot is the least important part of this film. It's pretty much style over substance but the style is so hyper kinetic you end up just going with it. Like the made for video era stuff such as Junk or Evil dead trap its got a small cast of the directors friends and colleagues in a single location and in true Evil dead style they throw everything they can at the screen to see what sticks. We have a guy who tries to use knives while armed with a handgun because it looks cooler. A tiny coward who seems to pull out a never ending stream of guns from his tight leather pants. A hero who is more concerned about looking cool and being a stubborn asshole than actually trying to achieve anything. Cast members pose dramatically and fire weapons in stupid ways because of aesthetics. Ultimately its a film that feels like a bunch of people having a laugh and that's no bad thing. The end result is still ludicrously entertaining.
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