Did I lose all of you with that little rant? No? Okay, now that I’ve got that off my chest… The one rape scene that I have to give mad props to is the necrophilic three-way. After hanging a police inspector from a rope, Touma notices the man’s death erection and decides not to let it go to waste. He instructs Satomi’s mother and her sister to grab Satomi and help hoist her onto the dead man’s member. Once she is in place, Touma then drops his pants and rapes Satomi simultaneously from the other end. No, I’m not making this up. We have family-assisted necrophilic rape! As this scene (one of the most offensive to ever grace my television) played out before my very eyes, I felt my mind being torn into tiny little pieces but I held on. It was too late to turn back.

For you see, to make matters worse, when I watched Crazy Lips for the first time, my wife and one of our best friends (also female) just happened to be ‘enjoying’ this film along with me. As embarrassing and demoralizing as this necro-rape moment was, I couldn’t turn off the film. Even though it was using and abusing me, sending my wife into a fit of rage and our friend into a coma of nervous laughter, I loved Crazy Lips. And I still love it. I sure as shit can’t recommend it to a damn soul but yeah, this movie is pretty fabulous.

One of the things I search for in horror movies is a good séance sequence. From The Changeling to Dario Argento’s Trauma, I simply adore when folks gather around a table, dim the lights and starting conjuring up some spirits. Whenever these scenes begin, I feel completely at ease and, if it’s a good one, I feel I’m on the verge of happy tears. Oddly enough, Crazy Lips has one of my favorite séances of all time. As Etsuko Mamiya calls out to the spirits of the four beheaded girls and they actually show up! The headless and vengeful schoolgirls arrive to help uncover the killer as well as aid Satomi in getting some violent revenge of her own.

Actress Hitomi Miwa is quite the little scream queen. According to IMDB, most her acting credits since her first role in 1998 have been horror. I find it most annoying that the bulk of her efforts in the genre haven’t shown up here in the US yet. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more of her soon. One familiar face in Crazy Lips is the prolific Ren Ôsugi of Uzumaki and MPD Psycho who plays the Colonel, an FBI agent who poses as a TV newscaster. Ôsugi makes the most of his cameo by playing this madman with delirious but straight-faced gusto.

One character that easily steals the entire film is Lucy, the blonde FBI agent played by sexpot Tomomi Kuribayashi. This character only speaks broken English and barks her lines like a complete freak (”Dead girls!”). However, it is when she breaks out an M-16, runs around shooting and butchering “The Star-Spangled Banner” that my heart explodes with love. Her exit takes place during a -big surprise- rape scene where her blonde hair is scalped off her head. But don’t worry, kids, Lucy comes back in the sequel with her scalp sewn sloppily back on her head.

Oh yes, you heard me correctly, Crazy Lips has a sequel. Director Sasaki returns with 2001’s Gore from Outer Space. While it is quite funny and contains only one rape scene (which is brief and is actually important to the plot), the sequel is a tad disappointing though equally bonkers. The title is a little misleading in that there is very little gore to be found. However, the wacky plot does revolve around aliens and features more psychic ridiculousness from Etsuko Mamiya. I think Pee from Outer Space would have been a better title since it has so many peeing sequences, I thought it was a urination fetish film or some freakin’ nonsense like that.

So just what the hell are the 'crazy lips' in Crazy Lips? I’m still not entirely sure. All I do know is that this film is a genre-bending freakout that will forever haunt the darkest recesses of my melted mind. There is so much insanity contained in this little non-masterpiece that I am forced to forgive its rapist excesses and just let it wreck me.