Lust of the Dead 2

Director - Naoyuki Tomomtsu (Scissorpenis, Bite Me if You Love Me)
Starring - Asami (Gun Woman, Dead Sushi), Yui Aikawa (Missing 55, Lust of the Dead), and Maki Aoyama (The Outsider, Scissorpenis)
Release Date - 2013
Genre - Horror/Comedy
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection)

Rating (out of 5):

     Sequels are usually a cash grab.  A production company will quickly churn out a follow up to make a few extra dollars from a property that was somewhat successful.  I like a good portion of sequels.  Hell, there is a few sequels that I like more than the original films.  However, its not often that we see a horrible movie get a follow film.  That can't be said with the Japanese horror comedy Lust of the Dead, aka Rape Zombies.  When I discovered the film on Amazon I soon learned that there is five total films in the series but the best I can figure is that the first three films may have been filmed back to back.  Regardless of when they were filmed, I was still making my way throug the first three in the new blu release from Media Blasters.  

     This follow up once again follows the surviving women of Japan as they band together to fight of the infected toxic men who want to rip them limb from limb after fucking them.  Now the women have another threat when the non-infected men come together and conclude that all women should are just sexual objects.  

     

I was expecting much from this one after watching the abysmal first film.  I know its the first week of 2020 but I highly doubt a movie will dissapoint me more than this series has this year.  The first film was rough and the follow up film was not an improvement.  The acting in this one is another unenthused mess given to us.  The cast has no interest in creating characters but perk up once the softcore sex scenes starts.  I have a hard time figuring out if this is meant to be a softcore horror flick or a horror film with some extreme nudity.  The story for this one is exactly the same as the first film with little new added to it.  The all men group that wants to rape women does change it up some but not enough to add a new experience to the viewer.  It's because of this and the look of the cast that I suspect that these first three films were filmed back to back.  Finally, we once again get some great practical effects with some questionable make-up effects on the infected.  I really liked the practical effects but the visuals were hit and miss.  Some of the visuals worked but there is several instances where the visual effects just didn't look right at all.  It was as if they ran out of time and just tossed it in.  Overall, Lust of the Dead 2 is just a continuation of the first film with nothing new offered.  The movie is a chore to finish and some viewers may not be able to finish this one.  Skip it.