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A Bloody Night with a Chainsaw Maid as your Bloody Date!

August 20th 2008 23:48
Chainsaw Maid short movie poster
My buddy Ricardo gave me a (severed) heads up on an amazing claymation short film called Chainsaw Maid. Very little credits, appears to be the work of a Japanese dude who goes by the name of Takena, probably made sometime during the last couple of years.

I searched youtube and found two more of his little horror treats; Bloody Date and Bloody Night. All are around five and six minutes long with no dialogue, only the most rudimentary sound effects and Casiotone-styled musical notes, but the movies are brutally, hilariously effective nevertheless.

Bloody Date short movie poster
Chainsaw Maid is probably my favourite of the three, althought there are bits (and pieces) in all of them that are inspired horror lunacy. Chainsaw Maid pays homage to George Romero, despite the Tobe Hooper-esque title. It deals with zombies. Bloody Date is the Tobe Hooper-inspired tale of a an axe-wielding psycho who chases a girl to the last house on the left where the rest of his gothic family dwells … and the ravenous mutant pet. Bloody Night is Sesame Street gone wrong with a poor wee girl being terrorised by a large hungry red monster who chases her down a dark alleyway. An old man tries to help. As does a policeman (there’s a terrific nod to The Matrix).
Bloody Night short movie poster


There’s hints of all your favourite horror movies, but essentially it’s Romero meets Argento meets Hooper meets Carpenter. They’re as colourfully “gory” as hell. I love it. Chainsaw Maid looks like the most accomplished, Bloody Night has the most interesting design, and Bloody Night, although soft in focus, uses some cool roto-scoping which the other two flicks don’t.

Bloody inventive stuff! Wallace & Gromit this isn’t!




Chainsaw Maid


Bloody Date


Bloody Night

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Comment by Damo

August 21st 2008 11:38
Great stuff.

True horror style.

Comment by Bryn

August 22nd 2008 00:54
Damo, indeed. What was your favourite?

Comment by Damo

August 22nd 2008 03:12
Bryn

They each had a classic quality about them.

Yet for pure craft and suspense Bloody Night followed all the correct rules. I really wanted that helpless clay girl to survive. I will give that my top vote.

However each had their good points.
Chainsaw Maid cracked me when she started to undo her dress.

Bloody Date was very dark and disturbing.


Comment by Cibbuano

August 22nd 2008 05:42
I need a word that means awesome x 50.

Man, claymation is fun.

The best part is when the wife vomits all those organs. That must've been hilarious to shoot that scene...

great find Bryn!

Comment by Bryn

August 22nd 2008 05:47
Damo and Cibby, cheers for the thumbs ups.

I love it when the guy in Chainsaw Maid stops to have a sip of his coffee after the zombie vomits up all her internal organs. Pure black comic brilliance!

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