Koji Shiraishi's "Grotesque" coming to UK DVD

Posted by Kevin Ouellette on June 5, 2009 - 5:39pm

Filed under: Horror, DVD/Blu-ray releases

Grotesque [DVD] (4Digital Asia)

UK distributor 4Digital Asia will be releasing Koji Shiraishi’s Grotesque on region 2 DVD with English subtitles in September. I first wrote about this one back in January, but it’s basically a victim-butchering torture flick that’s unapologetically derivative of Eli Roth’s 2005 film “Hostel” with an added layer of parody (hence calling the only version the “Unrated” version).

The film stars AV actress Tsugumi Nagasawa and Hiroaki Kawatsure as a young couple that get abducted by a perverse sadist named Tachikawa (Shigeo Osako) who ties them both up in his basement and begins mutilating their bodies in unspeakable ways as the other looks on helplessly. If either of them happens to pass out from the intense pain, he revives them with smelling salts before going back to work.

Region 2, PAL, 73 min. Japanese audio with English subtitles. Features TBA

Thanks to logboy for the tip.

Update: Grotesque was slated for release in the UK on September 21, 2009, but has since been banned by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) on the grounds that giving it a rating would involve a ''risk of harm'' to those viewing it.

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