In short: Mount. NABI (2014)

Warning: discussion of definitely non-consensual intercourse with a guy in a shitty monster costume!

A group of people shooting a shoe-string indie horror movie in ye olde POV style witness some strange light up the titular mountain. Despite a creepy guy hitting trees with a shovel warning them off, they climb towards the light and right into becoming part of an actual POV horror film.

There’s a mysterious rapey, murderous mountain monster (or is it an alien?) going about, and quickly, men are ripped apart, women are raped, and a lot of screams are screamed. Female lead Tana Akiyama is an excellent screamer deserving, perhaps, of less unpleasant stuff to scream about.

I don’t really want to play the moral apostle about Seiji Chiba’s weirdly punctuated Mount. Nabi, though, the rape is just pretty much the only thing in here you won’t see in most other POV horror movies, too. Well, it’s got more gore in it, too, but the gore, as is the execution of the perfectly fine concept of its monster suit, is pretty bad, even for a cheap little bit of horror like this one.

So, back to the film’s only notable feature. At least the rape sequence isn’t really shot to turn an audience on, but instead is clearly meant to shock, perhaps, revolt, or, when it comes to the shadow of the monster penis, make one laugh. The problem is that Chiba’s filmmaking really isn’t strong enough to invoke any of these feelings. Instead, I found myself annoyed by its use of rape as a shortcut to making an audience squirm, the whole thing becoming perfectly pointless when it doesn’t even invoke an authentic emotion in a viewer.

But “pointless” does rather seem the main word to describe the film.