I watched this movie last night and wonder if I can really recommend it or not. It has been reviewed by Ghidorah over at Chainsaw Maintenance and he has some nice original vidcaps to go with his post. It is one of the new Japanese zombie movies that are being churned out and is heavy on cheesy, over the top gore and nudity and sex. Students at a high become infected by a “popular” virus (as the subtitles read, as if there they out shopping for viruses and this is the one every one is selecting) and after a psychotic doctor injects the students with an “experimental vaccine” they turn into murderous zombies. There is a cure or treatment in that the swimming pool water makes you immune to the effects of the vaccine (it is never explained why).  That is where the swimming team comes in. Since they all swam that day none of them turn into zombies later and of course have to stand up to the monsters. Later almost all of them are killed at oine time by an infected teachers. Some group of heroes. Aki is the new girl in school and unlike the students around her was brought up by the same psycho doctor infecting everyone to be a super assassin terrorist. But while browsing through fashion magazines in the training compound she decides she wants a normal life like other girls and escapes. Soon she is surrounded by zombiefied schoolmates and having hot lesbian sex with her new best friend, who happened to also be secretly trained by the psycho doctor and is a bad girl.

And this is a really bad movie but it may appeal to some readers out there who just want to kill some time and can enjoy a movie that basically has no redeeming value to it whatsoever. I enjoyed some parts but the acting is really bad and the gore is sort of fakey and very gratuitous. The girls are cute and you get to see a couple naked once in awhile, but it not enough to make the sex part of the film worthwhile. The lead actors try to be too serious as they often are in these new Japanese movies. You know the syndrome, all tortured and shook up inside. Who cares. They should act less and be naked more. And to be honest, there was very little of the swim team running around in those tight black swimsuits that seem to be the center of so many fetish type soft core photo shoots coming out of the land of the rising sun these days. The schoolgirl theme is cool but nothing much happens with it here. The gore will be too much for some people I think and like I said there is not enough sex or swimsuits to live up to that great title. See at your own risk.

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