Stacy - A 2001 Japanese Zombie Horror Movie
Stacy Tagline
Schools Out... Forever
Stacy Synopsis
In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a "pre-death" state of absolute bliss and joy. Once dead, a girl comes back as a flesh-eating zombie and nicknamed a "Stacy".
The world in chaos. Countries suffer from famine, war and zero-population growth because of this teenage death-epidemic. To keep the zombies from returning and eating innocent people, families are urged to kill their daughters before they are allowed to die by this mysterious disease (chopping them up and leaving them in garbage bags for govornment sanctioned pick-up).
In a Japanese military base, some undead schoolgirls are held and tested by a scientist who tries to unlock the secrets behind the girls' return from the dead. But the world turns upside down yet again as a soldier, in a fit of depression, lets the girls free to storm the base and devour anyone in their path...
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Stacy Movie Review
Stacy (also known as "Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies") is a classic piece of cheesy Japanese cinema. The movie is very tongue-in-cheek and is not meant to be taken too seriously although pretty much from the opening credits it's gore, gore, gore. It's quite a low-budget movie but the effects are quite convincing (as convincing as re-animated schoolgirl corpses can be!).
A strange phenomenon is affecting the entire world where girls between fifteen and seventeen experience a brief spell of extreme happiness and then die and comeback to life as ravenous, bloodthirsty, flesh-eating zombies. These zombies have been given the cute nickname of a “Stacy”. Families are encouraged to kill their own daughters during the “Near Death Happiness” stage to prevent them from re-animating; alternatively the girls can choose someone (usually a loved one) to kill them. The main plot is a love story revolving around a potential Stacy and the guy she chose to stop her zombie ways.
The horror and gore really kicks off when a soldier at a military base, where Stacy’s are being experimented on, accidentally releases them all when he tries to rescue a girl he once loved. This turns into zombie carnage wit the military trying to stop the Stacy’s along with three rogue teenage girls who have made it their mission to illegally put the zombies out of their misery (for a price if the family cannot bring themselves to do it).
I won’t give too much away but it all turns out happy (in a way that it only can in Japanese horror!)
As well as plenty of gore, there is plenty of humour plus a number references to other zombie horror movies such as the "Romero Repeat Kill Troops" and the "Bruce Campbell Right Arm" chainsaw. Even the cover has humour warning the viewer that the movie contains "chainsaws, gore, extreme violence and girls in bunny outfits".
Stacy isn't your traditional head-f**k Japanese horror movie but it's definitely up there with the less serious zombie classics.
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