Director: Kenichi Ugana
Year: 2025
Country: Japan
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Serial Killer
Plot:
Obsessed with his work, a neurotic chairmaker begins a cruel rampage, murdering others to use their body parts for his mission to create a masterful chair for his collection, only to have to evade others in the industry who are becoming aware of his crazed actions.
Review:
This was a generally disappointing and not that worthwhile of a genre effort. About the main thing this one has going for it revolves around the brutality inflicted upon the victims of those he kills off. The different kill scenes here are generally enjoyable, from the innocuous interview-style questions that precede everything, so the hint of danger becomes quite fun, to the restrained and methodical nature of dismembering the bodies that we don’t know the initial purpose is for. Everything here comes together for a fun and genuinely brutal time. The graphic make-up effects show not just the aftermath of the repeated blows to a victim’s skull, the dismemberment of the body so that entrails are spilled freely, and other gruesome maiming done to a person’s body, accomplished with a slew of impressive practical effects to bring it all to life.
Beyond that, though, there are numerous issues here that hold it down. The majority of those are focused on the storyline, which makes it nearly impossible to tell why he’s as obsessed with chairs the way he is or why killing people for their body parts to construct one is of any importance to him. We’re supposed to take the very nature of his unhinged approach and behavior for the majority of the film as he blathers away on such an asinine concept, where we haven’t gotten the necessary grounding to make us invested. This causes the film to be dull and monotonous whenever he’s not killing anyone, as we don’t care about his quest, and when it tries to half-heartedly make some kind of religious proclamation about the nature of everything, it just feels as half-baked as it feels when we get the explanation that does nothing for the film as a whole. These end up being the major issues here.
Overview: **/5
A somewhat bland one-note serial killer effort, there’s enough to this one that makes it somewhat likable, but it has way too many issues that are enough to keep this down. Those who are interested in the subject matter or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution with this one.
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