Sunday, January 21, 2018

Tag (2015)

"Tag" goes full-force with the surreal Japanese 'mindfuckery' to the point where I don't even really know what to say on it. It's engaging enough, I thought, but there was no wrapping my head around what is ultimately going on in this movie.

Two busloads of schoolgirls are obliterated by a malevolent wind, except for one girl who is chased by the murderous force through the woods before making her way to school. There, she meets up with her friends who are as casual as ever and don't seem too affected by the survivor girl's hysteria. They cut class and head to a lake where they discuss alternate realities, which is obviously what is going on here, seeing as how, when they return to school, their teachers start murdering the students. From there, the surviving girl finds herself in even more parallel existences that I won't go into detail of - each one weirder than the next until shit comes to a bizarre 'conclusion'.

As deliberately complex as this movie is presented, I was able to enjoy it for the most part, based on its weirdness and sporadically splattery gore. The video game shit and naked guy with the red feathers at the end totally lost me, though, and there's a few pretty lengthy lapses in gore scenes. If you're up to watching this flick just be forewarned that it's convoluted as fuck, but still watchable for what it is on a visually creative level.

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