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Trailer for Schoolgirl Zombie Erotica Comedy ‘Bite Me If You Love Me’!
A totally under the radar J-horror film that I’m a big fan of is Stacy, which comes from Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl director Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Next up for the splatter fiend is Bite Me If You Love Me, a schoolgirl zombie erotica comedy.
The boys at Twitch have landed the first super weird and insane trailer.
“Hitomi is a pretty high school girl who adores zombies. She has no interest in handsome boys like all other her friends. She has been mad for zombies as far back as she can remember. Hitomi has watched every zombie film ever made and she has an impressive collection of zombie goods and memorabilia
Hitomi’s wettest dream is to have a zombie boyfriend, but no one believes she really wants to fall in love with a zombie. Then, one day, she meets up with Shota, a high school boy who everybody knows is still a virgin. This nerdy student is nicknamed “Zombie‐kun,” or ‘little‐boy’ zombie. Hitomi studies every transformation technique she can get her hands on, hoping to develop a spell that will change Shota into a real zombie. Will Hitomi’s efforts pay off? Will she actually manage to have her wettest dream come true and have sex with a post‐rigor mortis zombie?”
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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