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FEROZZ: THE WILD RED RIDING HOOD (Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-Cuba)A Jorge Molina filmScreenplay: Alain Jimenez, Jorge Molina & Edgar Soberon Torchia, based upon Charles Perrault: Little Red Riding HoodCast: Dayana Legra, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silva Machado, Francisco Garcia, Raul Capote, Waldo Franco, Rosalia Roque, BelkisEstenozRunning time: 72 min.Grandmother is a real pain in the ass. She’s always giving her daughter-in-lawDolores a hart time, even getting her son Lucio to rape her on the dining table . All ofthis in front of Miranda, her granddaughter, and retarded Dully, the incestuous sideeffectof Lucio mistaking his mother for his wife. Two years later, Lucio has kicked thebucket, Grandmother has been exiled to a hut in the middle of the jungle and Dolorescan finally live in peace with daughter Miranda and uncle Innocencio; the only otherpsychologically stable family member, if we leave his Satan worship aside. Time goesby peacefully. Dully relieves himself on a regular basis in front of bathing nymphetsand Miranda secretly cultivates her nymphomaniac neurosis. Then Dolores decides tosend her to Grandmother’s place with a basket full of food. Miranda unwillingly donsher red hot riding hood and sets off alone in the forest.If Charles Perrault had read Nabokov’s Lolita before writing his Red Riding Hood, theodds are that Jorge Molina and he would have been as thick as thieves! Molina, acinema teacher in Cuba and diehard fan of horror flicks, injects this universal tale with a severe dose ofsymbolism and eroticism which would have surely pleased Walerian Borowczyk, the legendary x- ratedmovie troublemaker. With Ferozz he has created a fierce and disturbing piece of art.HELL DRIVER (Yoshihiro Nishimura/Japan)A Yoshihiro Nishimura filmScreenplay: Daichi Nagisa & Yoshihiro NishimuraCast: Asami, Yukihide Benny, Norman England, Yasuhiko Fukuda, Yumiko Hara, Cay Izumi, Kentaro Kishi, Mizuki Kuzumi, Maki Mizui,Yui Murata, Kazuki Namioka, Eihi Shiina, Shijimi, Gadarukanaru Taka, Demo Tanaka, Minoru TorihadaRunning time: 106 min.An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transformingthose who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring thesurviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two – the southernhalf of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, livesbehind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infectedwasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living deadshould remain protected as family members or exterminated like a plague. Theeconomy withers away, and all hope seems lost for the people and the nation ofJapan. Hope arrives in the form of Kika, a beautiful high school girl armed with achainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kikaleads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infectedwilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka and put an end to the plague of the livingdead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half ofJapan, refuses to lay down and die.Anybody who’s familiar with the movies of special effects wizard and splatter godfather Yoshihiro Nishimura,will not be surprised when we say that the above synopsis is merely the beginning of the movie. Nishimuraastounded everybody in 2008 with Tokyo Gore Police and is almost solely responsible for all the bloody sfxmayhem in the genre (Machine Girl, Robogeisha, Hard Revenge Millie…). Last year, we had a bloody goodriot with Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl. But this year Nishimura himself will introduce us to his mostambitious project to date. Helldriver is a non-stop splatter opera, a true endurance test for the senses, withrecord breaking quantities of blood, flying limbs and legions of zombies.42