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Mutant Girls Squad was directed by Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura and Tak Sakaguchi. It stars Yumi Sugimoto, Suzuka Morita, Yûko Takayama and Tak Sakaguchi.

Plot:
Rin (Yumi Sugimoto) is a pretty ordinary teenage girl until her 16th birthday, when her hand starts to hurt really badly and soon shows murderous tendencies, super strength and bullet-proofness. Her father tells her that she, like him, is a “barbarian” and has this special power. Unfortunately, before he can tell her more about it, a government agency whose goal it is to exterminate the barbarians kills him. Rin has to flee, but is quickly found by Kirasagi (Tak Sakaguchi) and his group of mutant girls like Rei (Yûko Takayama) and Yoshie (Suzuka Morita).

The plot doesn’t really matter and is handled with the general (w)holeness of Swiss cheese. This movie is pure fun, undiluted by such notions as common sense. It’s gory, completely silly and definitely recommended.

Originally, I had planned to watch 10 movies during the /slash Filmfestival. I ended up watching 12; and Mutant Girls Squad was one of the late additions. And I am ever so glad that I added it because it was absofuckinglutely brilliant.

Within the first five seconds it is made absolutely clear what kind of movie you’re watching: When the bad guys show up, they start shooting from their nose guns (which look absolutely ridiculous and the shooting is indicated by them vigorously nodding their heads), then Rin, Rei and Yoshie show up and rip them to pieces (quite literally), with blood splattering on a white sheet behind them (“why is it there?”, I hear you ask. “You have to lose all logic for this film,” is my answer), so that in the end, they stand in front of a bloody Japanese flag. And either you’re already laughing your ass off, or you’re in the wrong film.

The actual production value is pretty low in this film. The special effects were mediocre to bad, the script was probably written by a million high hamsters running across a million typewriters for a million years and the acting was practically non-existant. But they hit paydirt with it anyway – I rarely had so much fun in a film.

The defense minister dying was a brilliant scene, one among many. The mutations themselves were a testament to the human imagination (chainsaws shooting out of asses and katanas out of breasts? Faces that turn into Japanese flags? Holy crap, writerfolk, I do not want to live in your heads for longer than the duration of this film…). And I can only repeat that you should check your logic with your coat before going into this film. But you will have so much fun when you do.

The B-Movie-Association for Camp in Film should build a monument to this movie. [And if the association doesn’t exist yet, we should totally found it.]