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dsy
@dsy

I had the immense, unmatched pleasure of showing @gutterdaughter my favorite zombie movie last night: Tetsuro Takeuchi's Wild Zero, better known as "the zombie movie that stars Japanese garage-rock band Guitar Wolf and also has a DVD with an unhinged drinking game."

The Wild Zero drinking game, described within the DVD menu. "The rules are simple... Take a drink anytime: someone drinks, someone combs their hair, fire shoots out of anything, anyone says "rock 'n' roll", something explodes, a zombie's head pops. A beer mug will appear on screen any time you need to drink."

This was actually my first time watching Wild Zero without following the drinking game1, but on just about every occasion before this I usually try to follow the rules. I have to switch to water by the 15th minute; this is a movie that loves to shoot fire out of things, and characters love to yell about "rock 'n' roll." I do not think this drinking game is actually feasible at all, but it is a great way to get shitfaced in ten minutes, which was the big draw for me back when I heard about it in college. This makes it sound like a pretty trashy movie. It is. It's great.

However!!! There is secretly a love story involving a transgender woman around the core of this, and the movie has some kinda-nice things to say as a result2! This caught me the-fuck off guard when I first watched it long ago, and it's very easy to say that Wild Zero unironically altered the trajectory of my life. I own three Guitar Wolf albums, I saw them live a few years ago, I own a shirt... I love Guitar Wolf very much. I love Wild Zero very much.

A Japanese man in sunglasses and a leather jacket pointing at someone, the subtitles read "Love has no borders, nationalities, or genders."

Even if you don't drink, I think turning on the drinking game is worth it just so you can laugh at how many beer mugs show up. The soundtrack is also amped, with probably 60% of the tracks being Guitar Wolf tunes. It's a really great bad movie. I don't know when to stop writing so I'm just going to hit post. Listen to Guitar Wolf. thanks

edit 11/28 07:25 UTC: thank you to @Mentat-Emulator for discovering that it is available in "okay quality" on the Internet Archive!


  1. "so you were sober?" hell no lol

  2. "great endorsement kiwi!" look - it's an imperfect movie. I promise it has a happy ending and that there's no violence on transgender characters, but you might cringe at the subtitles and some of the plot points.


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