Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'Black Rat'
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Black Rat”
In the creepy realm of underground, hipster horror movies, a director can never be too young, too exotic, too twisted or too well connected to become a cult star. Witness the hot Japanese horror filmmaker Kenta Fukasaku and his latest offbeat chiller “Black Rat,” due out on an English-subtitled DVD Tuesday.
Fukasaku, son of the late, legendary director Kinji Fukasaku (who helmed the Japanese sections of “Tora! Tora! Tora!’), has made his own path with such macabre and nutty horror works as “Yo-Yo Girl Cop,” “X-Cross” and “Killer.”
And in that vein, “Black Rat” continues the weirdo mayhem. It tells a “Carrie”-like teen revenge saga in which six high schoolers receive a mysterious message from classmate Asuka telling them to gather in a classroom in the middle of the night. The hitch is: Asuka recently committed suicide.
As the puzzled but intrigued students assemble at the school and begin to talk, a figure wielding a bat and wearing a blood-stained rat mask appears, announces “Asuka’s revenge,” and begins pummeling, slicing and dispatching the classmates in various horrific ways.
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