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Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies

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Stacy
Directed byNaoyuki Tomomatsu
Written byChisato Oogawara (screenplay)
Kenji Otsuki (novel)
Release date
  • August 18, 2001 (2001-08-18)
Running time
80 minutes
LanguageJapanese

Stacy (ステーシー, Suteishi, also known as Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies) is a Japanese horror comedy film, released in 2001. It is based on a novel by Kenji Ohtsuki directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, in which teenage girls turn into zombies.

Plot

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In the near future, the entire world is struck with a bizarre malady which affects every girl between the ages of 14 and 16 years old.

Victims first experience a period of giddiness called "Near Death Happiness" ("NDH" or 臨死遊戯状態) before expiring. Within minutes of death the victim rises again as a flesh-eating zombie—a "Stacy". These Stacies run amok until they are cut into pieces in an act called a "Repeat-Kill" (再殺).

The government has organized the poorly trained "Romero Repeat-Kill Troops," who ride around on garbage trucks, ordered to act out the disposal of the Stacies. By law, a Stacy may only be Repeat-Killed by her loved ones or the Romero Repeat Kill Troops.

Through research, it is discovered that a key to the Stacy phenomenon is the "Butterfly Twinkle Powder" (BTP or 蝶羽状輝徽粉) that accumulates on the Stacies' skin.

Cast

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(in alphabetical order)

Soundtrack

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The music featured in the movie is by Tokusatsu, of which Kenji Otsuki is a member.

Further reading

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  • Salvador Murguia (2016). The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 296. ISBN 9781442261679.
  • Colette Balmain (2008). Introduction to Japanese Horror Film. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 121–126. ISBN 9780748630592.
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