Gave Imprint and Homecoming a spin, good looks for the suggestions.
Imprint is very...Miike...It has plenty of the torture and pain aspects from the Miike flicks I know best, Audition and Ichi the Killer. The plot itself is bizarre, not the most coherent and not particularly well explained. But there's enough involved that you can follow everything and get an idea of what the story is going for. It's just so ridiculously out there that it's a trip. I read about how this didn't get a network screening, they pulled it for being too scary. Scary wouldn't be my word for it, but disturbing makes sense. The torture stuff goes pretty damned extreme. I think it's more interesting as "the Masters of Horror episode they refused to air" than as a stand alone piece of horror media. But it's also so different and out there that for a hard body horror head, it may be worth a look if the torture stuff isn't too much.
Homecoming is easier to explain. Dead soldiers from the 00's Middle East conflicts keep returning from the dead, like Zombies but without the violence. The question is what's brought these zombies back? Are they dangerous? And, I'm not kidding, should they be allowed to vote in the next election? It's a trip, very on the nose political satire, but also pretty well done. Was it overt to the point of being obnoxious? I don't think so, but I'm also a leftist so most of my politics get labelled radical to begin with. It was barely horror though, it's less about scares and more about the mystery and the message.
Definitely thank you for the suggestions though. These are two stories unlike 99% of what I've seen even though I try to watch everything that gets mentioned in this thread and more. Masters of Horror seems feels like giving these directors a blank canvas and letting them go ham or experiment or whatever they like. I'm 5 deep so far and only 1 was flat out bad. 1 was forgettable but alright. These 2 were fascinating but not great. Cigarette Burns, I loved.
the first movie was good.
