Horrors of Malformed Men

HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN is a Japanese cult classic that blends crime thriller, Gothic melodrama, and psychological horror, culminating in a feverish barrage of nightmarish imagery. Somewhere between pure exploitation cinema (think Pinku Violence) and highly idiosyncratic art-house filmmaking, it becomes one of the strangest nightmares in Japanese genre cinema.

Medical student Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida) awakens in a psychiatric hospital with no memory of his past, despite appearing to be perfectly sane. After escaping, he becomes a murder suspect and eventually discovers a dead man who looks exactly like him. He promptly assumes the man’s identity, gaining access to the estate of the wealthy Komoda family. But as fragments of his memory begin to return, the clues increasingly point towards a remote island…