The best Masters of Horror episode. Brutal and bizzare, and very compelling. The plot was great too! Drago is not at his best here, but the rest of the cast and Miike is!

Some of the plot twists are, I think, very intriguing, and it is extremely uncomfortable and unsettling, which is a realm Takashi Miike knows effortlessly. But the limitations of what it is are clear. The costumes are over the top, the sets are cheap, and the most of the acting is actually rather bad (particularly Billy Drago, though Kudoh isn't bad herself). Maybe it's me, with my personal objections to some of the content, but I couldn't enjoy it.

Silly story, poorly acted but worth a watch for the level of insanity this film is.

Content-wise, Miike doesn't hold anything back, and the plot has elements of those Buddhist Japanese scare-the-shit-out-of-you cautionary fables, which I like. Miike is certainly a master of torture-porn. The fact that this was too disturbing for air, while also being the most gripping AND horrible AND morally resonant AND gory of the series, is like a giant Fuck You to the other "Masters of Horror" and modern American "horror" cinema, no?

this movie is all over the place, it tries to be a torture movie (which i dont like) and fails by including some sort of monster thing. it has some seriously bad acting, and those accents are simply unacceptable. the torture does get to you, and the "monster" is a little on the "wtf?" side, but it has flaws, and an ending that just doesn't make any sense.

Wow I can see why this wasn't aired, that and it kinda makes the other "Masters of Horror" seem like amateurs. Drago's not at his best here, but I do think Miike is.

Pretty brutal and bizarre, but very interesting and compelling. Drago's performance is bad, though, and I think it would have been better with a tighter story and less "insane for the sake of being insane" stuff.

Both spooky and gruesome. And eerie.

I sort of like the condescension here; this really feels like Miike trying to "make something for the Americans." Lousy acting, awful dialogue, garish costumes and sets, and a fucked up gore-soaked misanthropic plot that manages to be deeply disturbing even while it's being incoherent. Sometimes it's nice to see the outsider's perspective, even if it's not very flattering.

Along with 'Cigarette Burns', 'Imprint' shows what the MoH really should have been with such great horror directors. I think this is also one of my favourite Miike films.

Esse média-metagem foi originalmente concebido como o último episódio da série "Masters of Horror", onde cada episódio é dirigido por um mestre do horror, nomes como Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter e Dario Argento. Mas é Takashi Miike quem rouba a cena em "Imprint". Esse episódio foi PROIBIDO nos U.S.A., e se você procurar no site da série, verá que o mesmo nem se encontra listado... Miike simplesmente cagou em cima dos "mestres do horror" e dos U.S.A, mostrando quem manda!

Who could stay mad at a mutant abortion technician? Even if she did have your love killed so the talking hand on the side of her head could chew on a ring. Please, you're Billy Drago, your acting is so terrible that I don't even believe you're that upset. Brad Pitt had a more believable reaction to loss in Seven. But really who could hate a whore who can work a hanger like a conductors baton, successfully orchestrating your unborn child's death? I know I couldn't.

One of the best MoH movies

Really all over the place in content.

Extremely intense, grim and more than a little insane, Miike's one-hour entry into the Masters of Horror series went unaired when the distributor freaked out at the film. It's easy to see why, its very potent sequences would send mom, dad, the kids and the dog shrieking in horror out of the house, which is part of the purpose, I'd think. Still, it is gorgeously filmed and thoroughly surreal, with memorable image after memorable image. Miike delivers a sure-fire knockout.