SYNOPSIS

From 'King of Cult' director Teruo Ishii, and the father of modern Japanese horror fiction, Edogawa Rampo, comes the DVD and home video premiere of a weird tale of deformity, madness, sexual obsession, incest, murder and ...freaks! Never released anywhere in the world before now! Cult film fans around the world can now rejoice, for Teruo Ishii's Horrors of Malformed Men, the greatest hidden treasure in the world of cult cinema, is coming to them in a fully uncut, completely remastered edition direct from Toei's vaults. In this tale of madness, young medical student Hirosuke assumes the identity of a dead man in order to solve the mystery of a weird doppelganger whose obituary he spies in a newspaper. traveling from circus sideshows to a cursed and isolated island, he discovers a web-fingered madman who surgically remakes normal human beings into misshapen monsters. But that is only the beginning, for Hirosuke has yet to learn the shocking truth about the island and his own family's shameful past. Transgressive. Disturbing. Depraved. Enter the mad world of Teruo Ishii and submerge yourself in the shocking fantasies of a malformed mind. The greatest unsung classic in the history of Japanese cult cinema awaits discovery... just remember that, after you've experienced it for yourself, you may never be able to watch normal movies again!