As I watched "Electric Dragon 80,000 V", a couple plumbers were working on my sink. After the film ended, they said "What WAS that?!"....and their reaction isn't at all surprising, as "Electric Dragon" is weird, confusing and a film with little in the way of context. Odd is a nice way to describe it.
The film begins without credits or narration. It also has little dialog and is a very difficult story to follow. What I gathered is that a guy was a violent youth and adult and to punish or correct this, authorities gave him increasingly larger doses of electroshock. After a while, as he aged he he grew to like these jolts of electricity and when he wasn't shocking himself, he was either playing his electric guitar (badly) or taking care of lizards...which was his passion as a lost lizard detective!
Another guy enters the story. He sports a half Buddha mask and loves to play with electricity. He also, apparently, is sporting for a showdown with the other guy...though why and what it is all about is anyone's guess. What happens ultimately, well, you can see that for yourself.
To say this film is weird, confusing and trippy is an understatement. And, in addition, I have a hard time saying whether I even liked it! Strange and disjoint, this is definitely NOT a film for the casual film viewer or even a 'normal' person! Watch at your own risk.
The film begins without credits or narration. It also has little dialog and is a very difficult story to follow. What I gathered is that a guy was a violent youth and adult and to punish or correct this, authorities gave him increasingly larger doses of electroshock. After a while, as he aged he he grew to like these jolts of electricity and when he wasn't shocking himself, he was either playing his electric guitar (badly) or taking care of lizards...which was his passion as a lost lizard detective!
Another guy enters the story. He sports a half Buddha mask and loves to play with electricity. He also, apparently, is sporting for a showdown with the other guy...though why and what it is all about is anyone's guess. What happens ultimately, well, you can see that for yourself.
To say this film is weird, confusing and trippy is an understatement. And, in addition, I have a hard time saying whether I even liked it! Strange and disjoint, this is definitely NOT a film for the casual film viewer or even a 'normal' person! Watch at your own risk.