School in the Crosshairs
This movie is completely bonkers. It starts off as a teen drama about some Japanese school kids who are trying to be the best ranked students in the class, while others just want to do extracurricular sports activities like kendo. I was ready to stop watching until about a quarter of the way through the movie it is revealed that the main character has psychic abilities and is communicating with a vampiric alien from Venus. I wasn’t surprised to discover that this is the same director as Hausu. The final act is a hallucinatory fever dream of bad special effects, weird costumes, and classical music. The story is a disjointed mess that makes no sense, but that might be the point.







