If you loved Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Giko Awakens, try Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Revenge of Nero

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Hiroki Yamaguchi, and they both carry the unhinged mood tag, and they sit in Action / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Giko Awakens, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Revenge of Nero is

Nightingale Academy, November rain tapping wire cages. A lone figure drags a whirring chainsaw past dorms lit yellow by flickering bulbs. Giko Nokomura’s classmate Nero Aoi has weaponized the dead and now hunts her as the only witness. Blood streaks the hallway floor in time with Giko’s footfalls. Carpenter’s son to Carpenters’ Nightmare in one mad architect’s cut.

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