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💀 NUMBER THIRTY SEVEN 💀
💀 EIGHT DECADES (2000s) 💀

"Versus" (2000)
* dir: Ryûhei Kitamura
* Action / Horror / Tag Yourself, I'm The Zombie Who Only Scuttles Around On All Fours While Shrieking Incomprehensible Gibberish
[ ★★★★ / ★★★★★ ]

This entire movie has the exact same eccentric sense of humor, delightfully overcranked hand-to-hand combat, compelling cast of total badass weirdos, and comical/comically exaggerated ultraviolence as the entire "Yakuza" video game series.

And I mean that as the highest of possible compliments.

It's also endlessly fascinating to watch a hyperkinetic genre flick made in a post-Tarantino, post-Woo, post-Raimi film landscape that takes clear influence from each of these different avenues (and a little bit of Peter Jackson for good measure) while still managing to end up with a final product that can confidently stand as its own individual thing. Many filmmakers have tried, very few have come as close to succeeding as "Versus" does.

And that epilogue? That fucking EPILOGUE? Ugh. Get out of town. Talk about some textbook My Shit, and one hell of a perfect way for me to finish off this year's Hooptober.