Amazon.com
Japanese-made
Zeram perfectly captures the spirit of the old Japanese monster movies: men in monster suits, dubbed voices instead of subtitles, and a mix of bumbling comedy and cartoonish violence. The title character is a vicious space-outlaw, a bulky monster controlled by a little baby face on his forehead. Newly arrived on Earth, Zeram has been followed by an attractive female bounty hunter, Iria, and her assistant, Bob (a computer). When she sets a dimensional trap so she can fight the monster without raising the awareness of the earthlings (secrecy increases the amount of the bounty), two power company employees accidentally stumble into the trap, too. If the outcome is predictable, the journey is fun. When Iria's fighting the guy in the rubber suit, the scenes are as clumsy and energetic as you could hope, and when the earthlings are fighting it, well, it's like Abbott and Costello in a Japanese monster movie. Either way, it's entertaining.
--Andy Spletzer
Product Description
What's "Zeram?" Zeram is a renegade space alien who is lured to Earth for capture by beings from the planet Mays. What do you need to catch Zeram? The standard issue warp machine, space bazooka, electric shield, and a computer named "Bob." A breakthrough in futuristic space adventure, "Zeram" is a fresh and intensely visual sci-fi about a single night's battle between a female bounty hunter and a renegade space alien. Fueled by action, drama, comedy, and incredible special effects, "Zeram" is a movie that rockets you into the next dimension! Live-action Japanese sci-fi, remade as "Iria: Zeiram The Animation."
