Weird Wednesday: S&M HUNTER

Rated R; 61min; Director:Shuji Kataoka (1986)

Location: Alamo Downtown

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presents WEIRD WEDNESDAY!

S&M HUNTER
SEPT 30, MIDNIGHT, $1, DIR. SHUJI KATAOKA, 1986, DV, 61 MIN, NR

An encore Fantastic Fest presentation. Since its inception, Fantastic Fest has provided a forum for screenings of the most outrageous Japanese "pink films." In the world of the "pinku eiga", filmmakers are essentially turned loose with a small budget. As long as the resulting film contains the requisite amount of sex and nudity (i.e. a LOT), the creators can seemingly get away with just about anything. Last year S&M HUNTER shocked and awed a Fantastic Fest audience of jaded international sophisticates, who thought they'd seen it all before.

S&M HUNTER is an exercise in manga-style outrageousness guaranteed to offend everybody. The black-clad S&M Roper is a kind of bondage super hero with a supernatural genius for tying women up in configurations that leave them helplessly aroused. When the all-girl gang The Bombers kidnap a man for use as their personal sex toy, S&M Hunter accepts a mission to infiltrate The Bombers' hideout and show them the ropes. It should be noted that S&M HUNTER is a hugely politically incorrect film, loaded with swastikas, delirious patriarchal anxiety, Catholica used for sexual purposes and worse, but few will be able to resist its spiraling craziness for long. The climax, in which the rope-mad antihero employs a 200 foot tall construction crane to execute his bondage masterpiece has to be seen to be believed. Not for the weak! (Lars)

Special thanks to Pink Eiga for making this screening possible. Check out their other titles here.

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