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Kill Devil (2006)

Kill Devil poster
Genre
horror film
Country
Japan

How it feels

In the year 2025, a group of juvenile delinquents with a murder gene are sent to an uninhabited island for rehabilitation. The government implants a tag on them that triggers murder impulses and memory loss, causing the teens to turn on each other and kill brutally.

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What happens

Kill Devil (キル・鬼ごっこ, Kiru Onigokko; lit. "Kill Tag") is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yuichi Onuma about a group of juvenile delinquents set in the year 2025. The juveniles are host to a "murder gene", and are sent to an uninhabited island by the government so that they can be rehabilitated. The government studies the causes of the gene, and implants an experiment on the juveniles called a "Tag". The Tag gives the juveniles murder impulses and memory loss, and both boys and girls start to brutally kill each other. This movie was distributed by AsiaVision, the Asian live-action label from Urban Vision Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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