Biohunter (1995)

Biohunter (1995)

Directed by: Yuzo Sato

Starring: Matt McKenzie, Matt K. Miller, Sherry Lynn

Here’s a pretty common anime for ya. People turning into monsters, monsters chomping off bits of people spraying blood everywhere, tentacle rape… Yep, thanks, Japan. I have no doubt at all that if we hadn’t dropped the bomb on them, they wouldn’t come up with so much fucked up entertainment. So I guess anime is all FDR’s fault. That’s a weird juxtaposition.

Biohunter is about two biochemistry professors, Komada (McKenzie) and Koshigaya (Miller) who use their skills to hunt down what they call the Demon Virus. The Demon Virus infects people and turns them into terrible monsters, each person turning into something different. They explain it as a sort of out-of-control evolution forced by the virus, and that this virus is the explanation for every monster legend the world has ever had. Apart from just having knowledge about the virus, Komada is also infected with it, but he has an above-average immune system that allows him to control his transformations into a big ol’ wolf-bat thing.

This of course leads to a bunch of monster fights with the aforementioned gore and etc. The final boss of the film is a… some important guy, I don’t really remember. Let’s just say he’s a senator… CEO. Of finance. So anyway, turns out the senator CEO of finance has the demon virus and has to eat the livers of young girls to stay alive because of it. They never mention how he knows that it has to be the livers of young girls exactly, but I guess when you’re an infected monster guy, you just instinctively know which livers are delicious and life-sustaining and which are just livers. There’s an exciting fight scene and a lot of stuff explodes into gooey messes of blood and ectoplasm or whatever, and finally the good guys win. Hooray for good guys!

One thing anime is good for is neat creature design. I mean, a lot of the time you get the exact same neat creature design as every other anime, but it’s still neat. In Biohunter, there are some neat monster designs, and a couple of them are fairly unique, like one chick who gets little faces growing all over her body (including one on her breast, which eats the hand of her boyfriend to start the movie off on a weird-ass note). I guess this is the sorta stuff that people who love stuff like this love, so there you go, I guess. What a recursive sentence. I think I need to go to bed.