Stacy (2002)

In Japan they got this stuff, it’s called cultural insanity, and not that they are the only ones that have it, we all do, but where ours (USA) manifests itself in sheer stupidity, theirs produces movies like Stacy.

What’s Stacy, you ask? Well, chilluns, sit down and I’ll tell you.

Huh? You’re already sitting down? Doesn’t anybody stand up at their computer anymore? Anyway, Stacy is a recent zombie flick that tackles some big issues, such as: what do you do when absolutely all your sweet teenage girls of the world die between 14 and 16 years old, only to return as gut-munching loonies that won’t give up until they are completely dismembered?

Yeah, kind of like the Evil Dead, except one scientist proposes that the corpses must be cut into at least 164 pieces to do the job. We’re talkin’ blood flowing like ketchup on yer grampaw’s eggs baby, yeah!

Well, it’s not as easy as all that. Firstly we have the symptoms, and their medical titles, such as NDH, (Near Death Happiness) and BTP (Butterfly Twinkle Powder).

Welcome back. So anyway, about a week before the girls die, they experience uncontrollable, rapturous happiness. (Ironical, ain’t it?) Then, when they zombify they secrete this weird bluish powdery stuff called Butterfly Twinkle Powder, and I’ll be damned if I know why.

Upshot: Teen girls guaranteed to die, all of them, basically insuring the extinction of the race. Call me crude, but I believe this raises some psychosexual notions. How do you keep the world going? Add in rapturous pre-death joy, quite similar in appearance to an adolescent crush, and the subplot of a particular girl who in NDH picks an older neighborhood gent to be her ‘dismemberer’ or something while endlessly traipsing coquette-ishly after him, begging him to sleep with her (not what you think) because only then will she sleep happily.

Sounds kind of fishy to me.

Whatever the case, the gore on hand is cheap, plentiful and exuberant (the stacies can be seen actually tearing intestines apart with their teeth), the pathos naïve and imbecilic, and the affair in toto too weird to fully grasp. Video Sewer says take the bait, just don’t swallow it.