{"id":2838,"date":"2007-09-07T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-aboutdisabilities.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2007-09-07T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T21:17:15","slug":"where-have-i-been-horrors-of-malformed-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Where Have I Been?\u2013Horrors of Malformed Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/04\/movies\/homevideo\/04dvd.html?8mu&amp;emc=mu\">story<\/a> (registration needed) Teruo Ishii\u2019s 1969 \u201cHorrors of Malformed Men\u201d has been reissued. I\u2019ve never heard of it, which is not surprising as I don\u2019t see very many non-mainstream movies these days. Unlike when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I thought nothing of driving forty-five minutes to LA to see films like Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. \u201cHorrors of Malformed Men\u201d belongs to the the \u201cero-guro\u201d or erotic grotesque genre of Japanese film making, Ishii\u2019s films are \u201cInvariably described in terms of the three D\u2019s \u2014 Deranged! Depraved! Demented!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plot involves the hero\u2019s ..\u201dobsessed father has been conducting a series of bizarre medical experiments in hopes of finding a cure for his disfigured wife. But success has eluded the crazed scientist, and all that his experiments have yielded is an abominable dominion populated by repulsive, half-human\/half-man hybrids.\u201d It sounds rich in disability imagery analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t be writing this but I saw that his last film was \u201cBlind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf.\u201d How could I have missed that? It\u2019s not often we get two disabled villains battling it out. I think I\u2019ll pass on ordering either from Netflix, though. If I relent and them a watch, I\u2019ll let you know how bad or good\/bad it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a New York Times story (registration needed) Teruo Ishii\u2019s 1969 \u201cHorrors of Malformed Men\u201d has been reissued. I\u2019ve never heard of it, which is not surprising as I don\u2019t see very many non-mainstream movies these days. Unlike when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I thought nothing of driving forty-five [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/?p=2838\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}