This is a good example of Japanese torture-porn. Though not as extreme as the first, Red Room 2 attempts to combine gore and sex into a disturbing entrée. Daisuke Yamanouchi writes and directs again in quite the same way as the original. If you like torture-porn make yourselves familiar with these films because the Japanese mind crafts bizarre dishes with seemingly simple ingredients. Although a step down from the original I doubt you’d want to miss this one.

We get four characters, inside a room, and a box of household instruments. Nothing else is needed or used to tell the story. There is a popular game called the King’s game. It’s the exact same game played in the first film. I'll explain the rules again but I do recommend you check out the review for the first movie. So these four desperate people will play the craziest game, risking their lives even, to win a lump sum of cash. They sit around a table and hand out four cards. Each card has a number: (one, two, and three) and the fourth card has the symbol of a crown. After the cards are dealt the person who gets the crown card plays the king and gets to impose a punishment, typically either violence, sex, or some other disgusting thing. Anything you can think of. The more perverse the better. Two people take part in the punishment while the extra person watches and if you can’t fulfill the deed then your out. Last person left gets the prize. Oh, and there are cameras all around the room recording the event plus the voice of the game lord who is not seen, or does anything except award the prize money in the end.

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There is a bit of interaction throughout the film where all the players get to know each other a bit better. There are two guys and two girls. The first brute idiot wants the money to pay off his debt to the Yakuza. The other guy wanted the money for an operation to save his two year old daughter which got turned into a vegetable (not literally) when she wandered into a washing machine. Then theirs a religious cult chick who’s pretty cute and wants the money for her cult and the last woman is...your ready for this? The last woman is a fucking robot! We don’t find this out till the end but I couldn’t keep my mouth shut.

Your probably asking yourself what kinda shit goes on in this red room. Well, I’ll tell you. There’s vomit drinking, toothbrush insertion up the nasal cavity with more than enough blood squirt, and masturbation. We get to see the robot’s breasts while she rubs her ass up a guy’s crotch. Theirs fighting too of course. One of the highlights is when the cult chick is being fisted and the dude pulls out her premature baby. Later the crazy cult bitch strangles the same guy to death using the umbilical cord. Yes, the umbilical cord.

If all this sounds like a good time to you then go find both of these films, grab a six pack and enjoy with your friends, or alone. Although torture-porn is a relative new genre people everywhere are making good stuff. Join the bandwagon because it only starts with the SAW films. I enjoyed this movie a little but the craziness of the first overshadows this installment. I expected MORE. This may sound hard to believe considering what kind of things are in here but it’s no home run. For example the original blended sex with gore very well. This one comes out a bit messy but it’s still fun and there’s a fucking robot!

- Jorge Antonio Lopez