2015 · sci-fi · horror · action
Parasyte: Part 2
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki1h 57m2015
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.
Our read: Parasyte: Part 2 (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal sci-fi · horror · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
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“You want intense Japanese live-action body horror as a teen battles head-eating parasites.”
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