“Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead”
Day 5 of the 2025 31-Days of Horror
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When Megumi and her friends go camping, they find themselves in deep shit, figuratively and literally. After Maki eats a parasite that she pulls from a trout so she can become skinny enough to be a model, she has a violent bowel reaction and poop covered zombies, that are controlled by parasites, rise and attack them.
There is Japanese Extreme Gore films and then there is Noboru Iguchi films, which are outrageous on a-whole-nother level. He seems to enjoy working out some of, what one might argue are, his fetishes. Honestly, when I watched Zombie Ass this time around (Yes, this was my second time watching it), I was convinced that there was a missing sequence. But there’s not, I was just confusing this with another Iguchi short. He had done “F is for Fart” in the anthology film , The ABCs of Death. In that segment, a Japanese school girl has an obsession with her teachers farts. But I digress…
Anyway, this movie delivers exactly what the title promises. If you are uncertain what to expect from the film after reading the title, the opening scene and credits will definitely clear that up. And it just gets more outrageous from there.
If you are tickled by toilet humor and fascinated by fart jokes, this might just be for you.
But seriously, folks and fans of exploitation cinema, Zombie Ass might be seen as an example of how the zombie genre, even when expressed through a bizarre and humorous narrative, can explore deeper themes beyond gratuitous violence, serving as a cultural commentary on society and fears. (I’m looking squarely at you, body image.)
