So, last night I drove out to my mom’s house and turned on the TV and found the channel turned to TCM. Since it was my mom’s house, there was no “info” button to push as I watched an early sixties Japanese film in which, at some kind of drunken orgy, a man finds his son with his girlfriend and quickly murders her. Then, there’s a non-sexual freaky-threeway of strangulation. The characters died but it wasn’t the end of the movie. In fact, it was barely the beginning.
Time to drag out the computer. Turns out I was seeing a bit of Nobuo Nakagawa’s highly notorious, blood-soaked 1960 horror oddity “Jigoku” which means, you guessed it “Hell” in English. Here’s the trailer. Abandon normal film logic, all ye who watch this.
