What should you expect when watching Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead? Expect tapeworms. Expect flatulence. Expect zombies crawling with their butts in the lead. Expect bad jokes, CGI blood, and a nonsensical script. In short, expect feces, both literal and cinematic.The film follows a group of teenagers who venture out into the woods to help their friend, a model, find a tapeworm so she can lose weight. They stumble upon a village infested with zombies and learn the true power of power of parasites and rocket powered flatulence.Zombie Ass's main flaw is that it is nowhere near as funny as it thinks it is. It's material never gets beyond fart jokes, which grow old after ten minutes or so. Adding a CGI cloud does not make a character farting any funnier. The film also suffers from bad special effects, in particular weak CGI. The only thing it really has going for it is that it literally has no limits and gets a laugh by virtue of its audacity.

Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her bullied sister, young karate student Megumi accompanies four older friends on a trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend, model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish -- and wolfs it down, in the hope that it will keep her skinny.If you liked the outhouse scenes in "Dead Snow", you will love "Zombie Ass" -- because there is fecal matter everywhere, flatulence used as jet propulsion, gratuitous butt crack... this is the sort of silly awesomeness that only Japan can bring.We get this gem from director Noboru Iguchi, best known for "The Machine Girl". If you liked "Machine Girl", you will probably like this one, too. I mean, geez, it is zombies and poop... and then it gets weird.

Parasites have infested the Japanese populace, turning the country into a zombie hell. A band of survivors must battle these tentacled monstrosities as they emerge (I kind you not) from the anuses of young girls.PROS: I would love to tell you that there was a single one, but the synopsis speaks for itself.CONS: I watched this (or parts of it, anyway) the same day I saw "Chanbara Beauty," a similarly structured Japanese zombie movie. Why? I had the stupid idea that I was missing the new direction in Japanese cinema. From its title to its fixation with scatological humor to its disturbing obsession with underage school girls in anal peril, there's nothing to recommend this film. It wants to be edgy and clever. It desperately attempts to infuse manga mentality into a story that is little more than an excuse for fart jokes and nude female bottoms. I'm certainly not a prude (I liked "Tokyo Gore Police"), but I found it disturbing that there seems to be such a market for this thinly veiled child porn. It's a really sad statement about a culture's legitimization of the criminal/unspeakable, and just how deeply immersed Japanese "art" has become in promoting it.

Former porn director Noboru Iguchi turns to comedy horror bringing along some questionable fetishes and delivering a piece of cinema aimed at grossing out viewers in a vain hope that gag reflexes will simultaneously tickle the comedy sense. Unfortunately the directors concept of zombified alien parasites causing destruction via the anus fails to hit home on any respectable level.The story breaks down pretty simple: a group of teenagers hit country-side with one girl intent on finding a tapeworm to ingest in order to utilise it as a self-servicing diet regulator. Unfortunately for her the tapeworm isn't standard riverside issue, but a more dastardly breed, which changes its host into a zombified flesh-muncher. Featuring some sparsely cad girls, fronted by a genre standard kung-fu kicking school girl (in the obligatory skirt and white socks) Iguchi throws poop, vomit and aliens playing peekaboo out of the backside by the tonnes, coupled with some adequately crappy fight scenes and gore (squelching brains feature most prominently). However the lack of restraint proves the directors downfall, although appalling acting by the entire cast does little to help.In general lacks any of the subtle ludicrousness (or reserve) of "Sliver" or "Brain Dead", while failing to bring about the crazy inventiveness of "Tokyo Gore Police". Lacking ingenuity Iguchi starts throwing in everything but the kitchen sink with a no-holds-barred bottom extravaganza, even obviously borrowing certain extreme scenes from other movies (such as the ultimate fart-flying air fight, reminiscent of the "Tokyo Gore Police" armless flying corpus).