You don’t need to be a professor of popular culture to know that the zombie genre is incredibly popular at the moment. This despite the fact that there isn’t much variation in the formula: The only difference between zombies from movie to movie or television show to television show is whether or not they are fast (28 Days Later, Zach Snyder’s incredible Dawn Of The Dead reboot) or slow (The Walking Dead and pretty much everything else). Walking speed aside, zombies are all the same: They crave brains, can only be killed if you bash their brains in, and smell worse than the crowd at Bonnaroo at the end of a long weekend.

In this regard, the Lust Of The Dead series—all three parts just showed up on Netflix this week—is somewhat revolutionary. These zombies still crave brains like Garfield craves lasagna, but have you ever heard of a HORNY ZOMBIE? Zombies, traditionally, have been totally sexless (save for maybe Warm Bodies), eschewing pursuits of the flesh for, well, actual flesh. This is not the case in this Japanese series, though, as these zombies have come back from the dead with the sexual ferocity of a young Wilt Chamberlain. Novel twist, right?

Not so much. The “real” title of this film is not simply Lust Of The Dead. If you look up the film’s real name, it’s “Reipu zonbi,” which translates to Rape Zombie. Yes, you read that right: Rape Zombie. (No wonder Netflix omitted that part of the title from their service.)

These zombies infect the living NOT by biting them, but instead by ejaculating inside them. GROSS!

Now, I suppose there’s a reading of this film that could go something like this: Men are predatory creatures ruled strictly by their sexual desires, and they’ll do whatever it takes to further their species.

That said, to acknowledge this film’s attempt to at being subversive would also mean totally disregarding the titillating glee with which the filmmakers shot the zombie rape scenes (fantasies?). I only made it about 20 minutes into this film before turning it off, but I did watch it long enough to learn one other major difference between these reipu zonbis and regular zombies, and that’s how you kill them. I’ll let the talking head from television take it from here:

Oh, and did I mention this is a TRILOGY?!?!

Ooft. This film definitely was aiming for “so bad it’s good,” but instead it ended up as “so bad you should never watch it.” Trust us on this one.

[Watch Lust Of The Dead on Netflix]

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