Nothing overly memorable here, to be honest, but still, they did good enough jobs, which is more than what can be said for many low budget zombie movies produced here in the Western world. The people cast for the movie were actually doing good enough jobs with their roles. And when the doctor had consumed on of the people, the size of the skull on the forest floor was so small and could never have come from an adult male. There were some laughable effects as well, such as the super-fake latex grafted arm that Rika received it just creased and wrinkled up in all the wrong places as the actress moved her own arm inside the prosthetic. The killing of zombies were adequate as well, some alright effects here and there. There were some minor gore and mutilation effects on some of the zombies, and it worked out well enough. So don't expect it to be Romero style zombies shambling around here. They have a tendency of painting the zombies ashen gray and dark around the eyes in their zombie movies, as is the case with "Zombie Hunter Rika" as well. For a Japanese zombie movie, then the effects were actually adequate. Battling the zombies and discovering the reason behind the outbreak becomes a race against time, as the US have launched missiles to destroy the contaminated region. The story in "Zombie Hunter Rika" is about schoolgirl Rika who travels to a small town to visit her grand father, but upon arriving there with her friend, they find the town overrun with zombies. But hey, guess that must be a cultural difference. "Zombie Hunter Rika" was actually a fun enough movie, I just have a hard time believing that these type of zombie movies are really what passes for horror, or even more so as zombie movies, in Japan.
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