JUNK HEAD
Cert 15
100 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong violence, bloody images
Who's up for a futuristic subterranean world of monsters and mutants in Wallace and Gromit-style claymation?
Written, directed and edited by Takehide Hori, based on a short he made ten years ago, Junk Head is very weird and strangely compelling.
Hori also gives his voice to almost all of the characters and is the film's cinematographer and music composer.
It feels like a passion project, stuck together in a bedroom and yet I was impressed by its originality.
Junk Head is set in a future in which people are nearly extinct because they have relied so much on machines that they have lost their ability to reproduce.
Meanwhile, human mutations maintain power underground but live in constant fear of the fragile environment collapsing or being eaten by grotesque monsters.
At the centre of all of this is the discovery of a living head which is kept alive and attached to scrap parts.
Over and over its 'body' is wrecked, either deliberately or in accidents, but the brain is preserved and new, often ungainly, limbs are found.
Oh, and then someone decides that the head is that of God.
What does it all mean? I have no idea and I doubt that Hori does.
I just think he let his imagination run wild and came up with this combination of nightmare and pathos.
Some will hate it and some will love it. It was outside of my usual taste boundaries but I certainly appreciated its originality.
Reasons to watch: Certainly original
Reasons to avoid: Very weird
Laughs: None
Jumps: None
Vomit: Yes
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 6/10
Did you know? The direction, writing, voices, sculpting puppets, lighting, camera operating, editing and music composition were initially all done by Takahide Hori.
The final word. Takahide Hori: "I had always thought that the fatal flaw in stop-motion films is that the characters look nothing more than dolls. And I was convinced that the reason behind it is their human eyes. Therefore, I decided to create characters without eyes."
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