Meatball Machine Reviews

• Eeeeeeewwwwwww!!!!

  
  By A199SWIHX0F1IO on 2007-12-31
  I believe that Meatball Machine was made for the sole purpose of grossing the hell out of people!! And if that's the case, it did a REALLY DAMN GOOD JOB!!! It forever will hold the place in my movie collection as the bloodiest, most disgusting, most disturbing, most downright chilling horror movie I've ever seen!!
  
  There was the one scene where the girl gets her eyes drilled, and I almost lost it. I almost popped the DVD out of the player and ran away! It was so gross and disturbing!! It haunts me!!
  
  Meatball Machine is more disturbing the Saw movies.
  Meatball Machine is bloodier than Dead Alive, and YES, it is possible.
  Meatball Machine is funnier than Knocked Up.
  Meatball Machine is scarier than The Sixth Sense.
  Meatball Machine is more of a must buy than any DVD/DVD Box Set you'll ever want in your life.
  
  It's a must-buy movie, because it will make you disturbed. It is vomit-enducing, but so entertaining at the same time. It is very much a must-buy horror movie, because it is one big bloody cake of genres that you will love.
  
  

• Everything "Tetsuo" Should Have Been.

  
  By A26PEFWHKUHN7O on 2007-11-02
  "Meatball Machine"
  A great silly title, for a great silly movie,
  It's essentially a cross between "Tesuo: the Iron" and a Gwar video with an Evil Dead vibe going on.
  Fetus-Aliens in their bizarre tentacle-ships attach themselves to people's chests and orifices,
  and transform them into mechanical killing machines (called necroborgs)
  hell-bent on eating each other,
  which they need to do in order to live.
  Sound wacky enough?
  Well it is, but it's still very enjoyable.
  Suprisingly, there's a love story here too.
  But don't worry that doesn't detract from all the off-the-wall silliness.
  
  Here's a few reasons you might want to catch this flick:
  - Lots of great blood & gore, (eye-drilling, head-splitting, etc.)
  - A whole bunch of wild battles,
  - Bizarre transformations involving whipping red hoses and internal mayhem,
  - Psychotic costumes
  - Disgusting/gorgeous aliens
  - All the campy laughs and blood you could possibly want.
  
  MORAL OF THE STORY:
  The only thing better than a man-made machine,
  is a machine made out of man.
  
  

• Just great

  
  By A3RMA760KDM78F on 2007-08-03
  If you like Bad Horror Movies because there funny and the director is obviously out of his mind, get this! It's like Dead Alive but 50x better. It's gory as all hell and is a great watch!
  
  

• rubber suit machine

  
  By A20WG4XAREQRE8 on 2008-07-13
  This movie has a great looking box. This movie has a great title. There are assuredly 20 bar bands at this moment, performing Monday and Thursday nights throughout this great land, now proudly brandishing "Meatball machine" on their fliers passed out in the local community college cafeteria. Terrific bizarre plot that is most assuredly ambitious and I was pulling for this one. Admittedly I'm kinda on the fence with the camp elements in Japanese "cyberpunk" genre. However CITIZEN CANE was not expected. I'm writing this review because it might be helpful for some of us/you B movie fans that are drooling at the dvd box picture and really want to hit that "one click buy" so they can sleep tonight. I know this movie is appealing just being displayed on the shelf or put on your collection list. But some of you should know The MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION before you left click that mouse... hold on... If your a; "I just can't stand rubber suits kinda guy or gal". And you know who you are, then this movie will become tedious fast. I couldn't finish M.M. glad I saw it, but wish I hadn't bought it. Gave it away to a friend who probably didn't even notice the afore mentioned offense. It deserves a decent home where someone can love and nourish it.
  
  

• Japanese sci-fi with gore and a story

  
  By A1X15AQVSCKKRG on 2007-06-15
  Director Jun'ichi Yamamoto makes an interesting film on the take with aliens and humans battling each other. Here we have a couple of aliens that battle with each other. Then the aliens also have hosts that attached themselves to humans and morph them into warriors.
  
  There is a side story about a nerd, Muraishi, who is in love with a girl named Misawa. The two share a lot of things in common including the fact that they are both lonely and shy. Muraishi finds a dead alien creature (or so he thinks back to his place). By chance he meets Misawa on a date with a jerk. The two go back to his place and tell their feelings toward one another much to his surprise. However, Muraishi has made the mistake of still keeping the creature at his place. The alien hosts becomes alive and attaches himself into Misawa and makes her vicious alien like ther rest of his race.
  
  The special effects for this flick are very well done and the creature effects too. There is a long scene of where we see the alien host invading themselves to the human's body in graphic fashion. It's graphic, realistic and very bizaree. There are other surprises into how the hosts operate but I'am not going to spoil it.
  
  If you want a decent alien sci-fi movie and you are sick of the low budget badly directed and acting Hollywood stuff you definitely will want to give "Meatball Machine" a try.
  
  This movie was definitel unlike anything I've ever seen and it has everything that a lot of sci-fi and horror fans will like. The acting was decent too. If you're into an entertaining sci-film with lots of gore you'll love this movie.
  
  Lots of action and gore so be prepared this movie very much uses the in your face type of camera action that makes this Japanese flicks really noticable.
  
  
  
• Strange & I Love It!
  By A2NU8KBNQJLTCW on 2007-07-25
  Meatball Machine is an awesome flick...at least for people who are into bizarre and gory movies such as myself. We need to have more movies like this. It would be great to see a sequel.
  
  
• Mmmm...meatballs...
  By A3ROE64EVHDTTV on 2008-07-20
  The Good Things
  *Grossest movie ever! Loads of blood and perversity! (Reminds me a lot of the anime show "Gantz").
  *A few good gory fight scenes.
  *Good filming style. Lots of good camera angles. Has a distinctive look and style.
  *Production design is good. Imagine the monsters from the "Quake" or "Unreal" computer games in a movie.
  *Simple but interesting story.
  *Surprisingly good characters. Although many of them are perverts, the main character spends much of the film trying to act noble.
  *Romance is not overwhelmingly sappy, and is touching at some parts.
  
  The Bad Things
  *The squeamish should avoid this like the plague.
  *Pretty low production value (but the quality of the cinematography makes up for it).
  
  Ah, so this is what "Gantz" looks like if it was a live-action movie! Not only are the two gory as hell, but they also share similar themes and attitudes of sexuality. Plus, both deal with freaky aliens and stuff. Unlike "Gantz," however, this film works better at being scary and immersive. This is definately one of the better B-rated movies I know of, but it's not for anybody with a weak stomach.
  
  DVD has good video and sound quality, and contains a couple of featurettes, two additonal films ("Maximum Meatball Machine" and "The Original Meatball Machine"), and trailers.
  
  
• Don't let the corny name fool you.
  By A3L51TJ5BFKJ59 on 2007-09-22
  This is a very smart and creative Japanese film. I was kind of turned off by the corny name, and the fact that people said it was hard to understand, but I assure you there is a great story to back up the gory effects.
  I hear a lot of people comparing this movie to Tetsuo, and I completely understand where the comparisons come from, but they are infact two VERY different movies. I am a huge Tetsou fan but in my opinion this is a way more enjoyable film that should be taken very seriously by Horror and Sci-Fi fans.
  Everything in this movie is excellent, the story is awesome and not hard to understand at all, the acting is top notch and works perfectly, it has so much creativity it is unbelievable, and this has some of the most impressive special effects I have ever seen in my life. The one flaw I could find is SOMETIMES the aliens look a little rubbery, but for every rubbery-looking alien there were ten more incredible effects to make me forget all about that.
  
  I highly recommend this movie although it does have it's flaws, and it does borrorw heavily from Tetsuo, if you like to watch B-movie's with a brain opposed to A-movie's with pretty actresse's, big muscles, and no artistic merit whatsoever, then you should definitely pick this one up.
  This movie is rapidly growing as one of my favorite movies of this decade so far (2000-2007).......or ever for that matter.
  
  
• It was alright
  By A1FLT7HOH8ECL7 on 2008-07-08
  There were some good scenes of gore, but it is in no way gorier than Dead Alive (Brain Dead). Meatball Machine is like a really demented Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie. All of the monsters look like bad guys from that kids show. The fighting between the monsters wasn't that great.
  I wasn't looking for a masterpiece, but I wasn't looking for a kids movie with gore added to it. Some of the bloody goodness was awesome. Heads split in half, eyes getting drilled out, and much more. The parasites that take over the humans are pretty cool looking too. It was worth the watch but not sure if I'll watch it again.
  
  
• Confusion abounds in a bath of blood
  By A2PN7Z2VTHICL8 on 2008-10-10
  You know the makers of the film are not taking themselves very seriously when the movie starts with two silhouetted monsters talking to each other. Meatballs! Tacos! This introduction is in English with Japanese subtitles, but the movie itself is in the Japanese language with English subtitles. The movie then starts with a fight scene between two cyborg creatures, the winner eating the other's strange heart-bulb. The film starts bloody, runs bloody, and ends bloody.
  
  Shy factory worker Yoji (a real weenie) has been watching a girl across the fence, but doesn't have the courage to introduce himself. One night he catches a co-worker trying to rape the girl, Sachiko, in the park. He tries to beat up the co-worker but fails, even though the man leaves Sachiko alone. The two go back to Yoji's apartment where Yoji has one of the strange creatures in a travel bag. He captured it in a pile of garbage after being beat up by a transvestite. As Sachiko confesses her dark secret, the monster comes alive, jumps out of the closet, and rapes Sachiko before turning her into a cyborg creature. Yoji of course does nothing, he's too scared. He runs from Sachiko only to be knocked out and found on the streets by a strange man who lives in a crappy apartment and seems to be the only person in Japan who's aware of the monsters and knows what they're doing. Then he turns Yoji into one of the monsters, but Yoji escapes to look for Sachiko.
  
  That's the plot. Very thin, but of course the movies isn't about the plot. It's about hungry little buggers who like to eat each other and raise havoc. It's about ropy tendrils, split heads, eye gouging, heart bulbs, slime, eyeball drills, gooey skeletons, and a little masturbation, a transvestite, and a prostitute for good measure. We're also treated to a little "monster vision", seeing humans from the creature's eyes. The aliens are funny, looking a little like a twisted beanie-baby with some goo thrown on it. And, of course, it's about blood, blood, blood.
  
  The photography is sketchy, using a lot of scene skipping and "flashes", the film isn't shot in video but it has the feel of video. The dialogue is stilted, and the acting just mediocre, and the FX a little cheesy. But you came here for blood and you'll get plenty of that. I'm not a usual fan of Japanese or Asian horror films, but 'Meatball Machine' is one of the rare ones I liked. With the humor thrown around the film like the blood, and some wild imagination with the cyborg creatures, it manages to raise itself from a typical foreign horror flick to something every type of horror fan can enjoy. Rent first. Enjoy!
  
  
  

• The Machine Girl
• Splatter: Naked Blood
• Inside (Unrated)
• From Beyond (Unrated Director's Cut)
• Battle Royale Directors Cut