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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead
Movie

Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead

2012 • Horror

Woke Score
7
out of 10

Plot

After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine, where they meet housewife Kanae and school girl Tamae. With no choices left to them, the group of girls decides to take a stand and arm themselves with assault rifles and explosives to fight off hordes of horny zombies. What is the secret to killing the zombies for good?

Overall Series Review

The film depicts Tokyo following a nuclear incident that causes a virus to turn the entire male population into sex-crazed, aggressive zombies known as 'Rape Zombies'. The narrative follows a small group of female survivors—an office worker, a nurse, a housewife, and a schoolgirl—who take refuge in a Shinto Shrine. As the women, who represent all walks of life, realize the extent of the disaster, they band together and arm themselves with military-grade weaponry to fight back. The story is a Japanese exploitation horror-comedy that creates an extreme, over-the-top, and graphic gender war scenario. The plot contrasts the gross, animalistic depravity of the infected men with the surprising strength, resolve, and sisterhood of the women who are forced to become a militant resistance to survive. The tone is a mix of sincere empowerment, hyper-violence, and crude sexual comedy.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics10/10

The entire premise rests on the biological characteristic of sex: all males are instantly and universally vilified as a class of predatory, subhuman monsters, while all females are unilaterally positioned as the victims and subsequent heroes. The plot exists as an extreme allegory for the toxicity of an entire immutable group.

Oikophobia5/10

The societal critique focuses on a plague of toxic male behavior that turns the home culture's men into monsters. However, the women find sanctuary in a traditional Japanese religious institution, a Shinto Shrine, and the narrative references a Sun Goddess prophecy. This shows the deconstruction of men but uses elements of national heritage as a source of hope and refuge.

Feminism10/10

Male characters are reduced to waddling, bumbling, sex-obsessed idiots. The female protagonists, regardless of their prior occupation (officeworker, nurse, housewife), are immediately capable, resourceful, and effective soldiers in organized combat. The film's core conflict is the ultimate, literal emasculation of the male sex and the instant, perfect empowerment of the female sex.

LGBTQ+1/10

The conflict is based entirely on a rigid, biological, and destructive version of the traditional male-female dynamic. The plague targets men and drives them to attack women. The story does not center alternative sexualities, reference gender ideology, or deconstruct the nuclear family through a queer theory lens.

Anti-Theism1/10

The female survivors find safety in a traditional Shinto Shrine and the plot incorporates a prophecy involving a Sun Goddess. Faith and mythology are utilized as sources of cultural foundation and narrative possibility, not as the root of evil or bigotry.