Vermilion Pleasure Night: Vol. 2: Vox Stimuli (2006)

TV. You have never seen anything as edgy as this. Sometimes nightmarish, sometimes vapidly cheerful but always postmodern, most of the sketches and vignettes involve ornately or scantily clad women -- or zombies. I only watched Episode 3. First is Zombie Family ("You dropped your eyeball, sis" and in every segment the mother sinks a hatchet into her daughter's heads one or more times. Think of Vicki Lawrence in Mama's Family on crack.) Then is Mannikin Family (Mikey wants to stay home sick from school, Mikey gets possessed, Mikey's parents move and leave him behind). Lucy's House presents four women as dolls dancing and singing about being married and becoming human. In Midnight Kitchen, a blindfolded and manacled woman attempts to cook wontons, gets high on paint thinner and worse. Fitting Room shows a naked woman posing and dancing behind cutout outfits. Provocative video eye candy of women serves as fillips between the segments. It's all PG and geared to men as much as women but if you are familiar with Japanese culture (or at least MXC and Iron Chef), you can understand how this appeals to their edgier-than-Adult Swim mindset. 3 stars.