Horrors of Malformed Men

Synopsis

In adapting several stories by Japan’s master of weird fiction Edogawa Rampo (a pseudonym: say the name aloud and you’ll get the reference to a certain American writer of terror tales), Teruo Ishii produces a masterpiece of the “ero-guro-nansensu” (erotic-grotesque-nonsense) thread of Japanese pulp art. Starting in an insane asylum and ending on a psychedelically rendered island of miscreants, it is truly a fascinating artifact of its times.

Listed at AFS

Archived on the AFS site between Fri, May 20 2022 and Fri, May 15 2026, across 6 captures. These dates are inferred from Wayback Machine captures and may not be accurate.