US Title: Suicide Club
Japanese Title: 自殺サークル (Suicide Circle)

First off, you know any movie with a tagline of ”それではみなさん、さようなら！” (“Well then, goodbye everybody”) is going to be involving a lot of death and carnage.  And “Suicide Club”, or “Suicide Circle” does not disappoint.

Sure enough, from the get-go, as a group of high school girls throw themselves onto the train tracks on a busy platform, you know what you’re in for:  A Japanese-style gore fest.

But it gets better.  As the detective investigating the deaths, Toshiharu Kuroda (Ryo Ishibashi) learns, the source of the quickly spreading desire to end one’s own life is a bit strange.  A website, yes, a website that lists the dead in red dots, given to him by a woman named, “The Bat”…  but it gets stranger still!  There’s actually a weird gang of well, weirdos holed up in a bowling alley pulling all the strings.

Wait, what?

Oh, and before I forget, there’s also this J-pop group on TV who’s songs apparently carry subliminal messages to kill yourself.

Wait, what? Huh? 何?!?!??

Yeah, that’s about where I lost track of things.  Bah, I dunno, I run into this sometimes with Japanese movies.  They’ll just start throwing things at you seemingly out of the blue.  Things that make. no. sense.

To be honest.  I still don’t get it.

If you want to see some marginally creepy moments, some typical splatter-genre stuff, and try and figure out the connections between it all, then by all means watch away.  But honestly, I can’t recommend it.  Just for the kitchen-cutting-board scene alone.

Suicide Club might have been called Suicide WTF?  That might have made more sense.  Maybe someone could explain it to me a bit better?

Here’s the opening clip, not for the squeamish, you’ve been warned.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/
Amazon: Suicide Club (Suicide Circle)

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