All over the world Girls between the age of 15 and 17 begin dying, only to come back as bloodthirsty zombies called Stacys, named after the first to come back. They then have to be "repeat killed" and chopped into 165 pieces.

This is a bizarre movie, if you're looking for normal horror flicks, don't look here. In fact, you might want to stay away from Asian cinema in general, their ideas are often what we'd call strange. However if you want to see a quirky, absolutely original film that's really more like an incredibly gory fairy tale than a horror movie, check this one out.

As the young girls get close to dying, they start to feel NDH, which is near-death happiness. They get giddy and are completely comfortable with their fate, except thier concerns about who will repeat kill them when they come back. They fixate on it. They want someone who loves them to do it. It makes sense, if all you had left was that, you'd consider it important too.

This makes for the creepiest part of the movie. A cute little girl walking through the piles of dismembered zombies and saying "Be sure to chop me up good like these girls!" then giggling. This type of things happens throughout the flick, and always makes for a good scene.

Everyone else is fluctuating between gloom and depression, and these soon-to-be-dead girls are trying to cheer them up before they go. It's odd.

This adds the odd atmosphere in this movie. The zombies aren't looked at with the absolute horror we normally see in a zombie flick, they're looked at as what will eventually happen to the young, innocent and beautiful. The horror isn't the Stacys, it's the deaths that lead to them.

There are some good references in this flick, the Romero Corps, a top-selling chainsaw designed specifically for chopping up your daughter or girlfriend is called "Bruce Campbell's Right Hand 2". The quirky humor of Asian cinema is in full swing throughout the movie, as is the sentimentalism - which actually works quite well. If you let the movie take control of you, you'll get a lot more out of it.

Also the soundtrack has to be mentioned. Over and over this cheesy music plays when a certain soon-to-be Stacy appears, and it works quite well at the end of the movie. By then you're brainwashed to think of her when you hear it, and it doesn't seem so cheesy anymore.

If you're not a fan of Asian cinema you won't get this movie, it will bug you. It's a bizarre morality tale, a love story between a puppeteer and a young girl that's about to die, it's about family and loneliness and needing acceptance. The movie itself is about love and the need for it.

Don't expect Night of the Living Dead or Army of Darkness. Also don't expect English dialogue. It's a Japanese movie with english subtitles.

On the other hand, if you love gore in all it's sticky forms, you'll love this. Zombies with their eyeballs hanging out, head shots that remove the entire frontal lobe, half-girls pulling themselves out of buckets and crawling toward their prey, and two (that's right, two) heads pulled off while the spine is left hanging. You might question the bizarre plotline, but you won't question the quality of the gore here. Lack of nudity is a little annoying, I was really counting on seeing more of Natsuki Kato.

I really enjoyed it. There was a lot that should have put me off. The way the stacys walked looked goofy. The story was pretty insane, especially the ending. I still ended up enjoying every minute of it, and was actually rooting for a happy ending, usually something I hate in a zombie flick.

This movie wasn't put together to make a buck, or to imitate anything. You can question lots of things about this movie, but you can't question that the people behind it were trying to create something.

8 out of 10 dangling spinal columns

This really is an excellent movie. Asian horror flicks are something to behold. People should make a big effort to pick up flicks like this, Junk, Versus, Evil Dead Trap, and so on. The ending was almost too weird however. If you turn it off before the commentary at the end you will have beheld a masterpiece. Even with the ending commentary it is still great though.

It's interesting how you get desensitized to seeing teenage girls turning into zombies and getting whacked and eating people and stuff. It's a little taboo to put kids in horror movies and shit, but it usually has a profound effect.

This is also one of those movies that has zombies in it, but the underlying storyline is really more profound. A good solid flick, or a flick that is way too weird and quirky, depending on what kind of a movie fan you are. Anyway, Paynecraft the Irascible gives this gem 8.5 out of 10 Stacy's. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Go fuck yourself.

I love gore, zombies, and Asian cinema. That’s why it’s so strange that I didn’t like this movie. Oh there were some parts I really enjoyed but overall I was bored. I actually scanned forward I was so impatient to get the movie over with and I never do that.

I didn’t like the way the Stacys moved or the fact that they made laughably stereotypical zombie sounds with their tongues hanging out. I hated the whole theory the scientist came up with for why the Stacys do what they do.

I honestly thought I would really like this movie. Since it’s me against The Horrorist, Paynecraft, and Taco I’d probably go with their opinions instead of mine if you’re standing in front of a copy of Stacy at your local video store.

3 out of 10 wind chime things that totally got on my nerves.