Freeze Me
2000, NR, 101 min.
Directed by Takashi Ishii, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Harumi Inoue, Shingo Tsurumi, Kazuki Kitamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Naoto Takenaka.

A low-budget Japanese revenge movie, Freeze Me tells the story a woman who retaliates against the three gangbangers who won’t leave her alone. After gang-raping her in her hometown, the men follow her to the big city where they continually come to her apartment and workplace, threatening blackmail and causing her to lose her job. But she wreaks her revenge – and then has a few problems involving corpse disposal. Mixing horror and eroticism in that cinematically Japanese way, Freeze Me promises disturbing thrills.

This article appears in November 29 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.