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Karaoke Terror: "So Insane I Can't Even Begin to Describe It."

By Dennis Dermody

Karaoke Terror

It's the kids vs. pissed off middle-aged women in Karaoke Terror, a bizarre, outrageous, apocalyptic Japanese dark comedy based on a twisted novel by Ryu Murakami (Audition). When a 20-year-old slacker follows a woman home one day and slits her throat for no apparent reason it starts a revenge war between her middle-aged girlfriends who meet to sing karaoke. The divorced women who call themselves "The Midoris" plan violent retaliation for the death of their friend. But this sends the boy's friends scrambling for weapons of their own. The whole thing escalates from knives to guns to heat-seeking missiles. Directed by Tetsuo Shinohara, this gets so insane I can't even begin to describe it. Lets just say it ends in a big bang.

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can't wait to see it

Posted at 10:43 a.m. ET on Apr 19, 2008 by cheetah

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