Thema: Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in Daehakroh (Südkorea, 2000)

[Lionel]

 

http://www.ofdb.de/film/33085,Teenage-Hooker-Became-Killing-Machine-in-Daehakroh

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280140/

http://asiancult.com/product_info.php?products_id=3593


A brutalized teenage prostitute, chopped into pieces by her perverse teacher, is brought back to life by a mysterious scientist. After being reassembled, she is reanimated and transformed into a cyborg angel of death. This amazing pop culture gorefest was gushingly reviewed by David Aaron Clark in ACC #39 when he wrote: “The schoolgirl’s resurrection is a moment of dime-store religious awe and transcendence summoning up echoes of both Joan of Arc and Metropolis’ Aleta.” Now, it’s finally available on DVD. (asiancult.com)


Finally! Somebody in this stinkin’ world appreciates my superhuman ability to waste entire weeks of my life watching endless piles of B-Movies with stupid titles and has actually given me an opportunity to post my narrow-minded opinions on an otherwise respectable online magazine. So big up to the Electric Sheep gang for doing so… and on your heads be it.

The premise of Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine is essentially a cross between I Spit on Your Grave and Robocop. A street-walking-sailor-suited-schoolgirl is murdered when she becomes pregnant by her teacher, and is brought back to life Bionic Woman-style by some mysterious organisation. Reprogrammed as an emotionless assassin, complete with a fearsome flip-out crotch-cannon, she is unleashed on the city’s underworld, only to have her circuitry damaged (or to be more accurate, one of her robo-boobs memorably blown off) causing her to realise her true identity. Cue bloody and violent revenge upon her killers and so forth.

Sounds like I just described a generic exploitation action thriller, don’t it? I knew you were gonna get the wrong idea! At risk of sounding unsophisticated… I think this is really one of them artsy films in disguise… To get a better idea of the way things go down in the world of Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine, I’d like you to fetch a torch and hold it up to one of your eyes, as this will help more accurately emulate the experience.

You see, I had to take an unexpected trippy-trip out of my comfort zone for this film. As an avowed philistine, I was hoping for something kitschy and lowbrow, I mean, it’s got ‘Killing Machine’ in the title for gad’s sake. Instead I was faced with something darkly surreal and full of what I can only assume was symbolism. I’m not really an abstract type guy, and my knowledge of Asian cinema is basically limited to Godzilla so I had to really fish my brains for a decent reference point and I came up with… Tetsuo: The Iron Man! I know that one gets wheeled out a lot but it’s the only other film I can think of that has a similar mix of Lynchy obscurity and animé-informed cyberia. You can tell someone’s out of their depth when they resort to calling stuff ‘Lynchy’ but you know what I mean. It’s a world where people can transform into robots and shoot each other up, but it all happens in grimy hand-held slow motion with ‘experimental’ lighting and an opera soundtrack. Here’s a good example of what I’m talking about: rather than go for the obvious ’scientists turn dead body into android in laboratory’ scene, Teenage Hooker gives us the world’s first ‘creepy old lady turns dead body into android with a Victorian sewing machine’ scene. That kind of thing.

So, yeah, contrary to my expectations, Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine is a little more in the arthouse than the grindhouse, and I’d recommend it to anyone who fancies spending an hour feeling shocked and confused. I’d buy it just for the title, it’s a real shelf-brightener. By Doc Horror

(http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2008/01/07/teenage-hooker-became-a-killing-machine/)


 

 

 

Pictures and Plot Summary: http://asiancult.com/product_info.php?products_id=3593



Hab schon vor x Jahren mal in der Splatting Image was drüber gelesen, klang interessant. Hatten auch nen Thread dazu damals, aber der existiert nicht mehr. Der Film ist mittlerweile als UK-DVD zu einem erschwinglichen Preis zu haben.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3496662/Teenage-Hooker-Became-A-Killing-Machine/Product.html


Trailer kann ich leider keinen finden.

[skfreak]

Hab schon vor x Jahren mal in der Splatting Image was drüber gelesen, klang interessant. Hatten auch nen Thread dazu damals, aber der existiert nicht mehr. Der Film ist mittlerweile als UK-DVD zu einem erschwinglichen Preis zu haben.

Wie Tobi gestern so schön sagte: Kaufen, Berichten und mir dann ausleihen :P 8)

[Crash_Kid_One]

Hab schon vor x Jahren mal in der Splatting Image was drüber gelesen, klang interessant. Hatten auch nen Thread dazu damals, aber der existiert nicht mehr. Der Film ist mittlerweile als UK-DVD zu einem erschwinglichen Preis zu haben.

Wie Tobi gestern so schön sagte: Kaufen, Berichten und mir dann ausleihen :P 8)

Genau ... und danach MIR berichten ... ich hab nämlich auf die lange englische Inhaltsangabe keine Lust, besonders net am frühen Morgen

Der Titel klingt aber gut 8)

[skfreak]

Hab schon vor x Jahren mal in der Splatting Image was drüber gelesen, klang interessant. Hatten auch nen Thread dazu damals, aber der existiert nicht mehr. Der Film ist mittlerweile als UK-DVD zu einem erschwinglichen Preis zu haben.

Wie Tobi gestern so schön sagte: Kaufen, Berichten und mir dann ausleihen :P 8)

Genau ... und danach MIR berichten ... ich hab nämlich auf die lange englische Inhaltsangabe keine Lust, besonders net am frühen Morgen

Der Titel klingt aber gut 8)

Inhaltsangabe??? Was für eine Inhaltsangabe???
Ich habe nur den Titel gelesen und die Bilder angeschaut.

[Crash_Kid_One]

Ich ebenso Bilder sehen gut aus !!

[der Dude]

Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine is a little more in the arthouse than the grindhouse

Das tönt doch schonmal interessant.

[Lionel]

So lang ist die Inhaltsangabe doch net.

A brutalized teenage prostitute, chopped into pieces by her perverse teacher, is brought back to life by a mysterious scientist. After being reassembled, she is reanimated and transformed into a cyborg angel of death. This amazing pop culture gorefest was gushingly reviewed by David Aaron Clark in ACC #39 when he wrote: “The schoolgirl’s resurrection is a moment of dime-store religious awe and transcendence summoning up echoes of both Joan of Arc and Metropolis’ Aleta.” Now, it’s finally available on DVD. (asiancult.com)