New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity
Their high school is super-strict at a baseline level – and when things start to degenerate, with students forming themselves into human pyramids and turning into mindless drones, it becomes clear something extremely peculiar is at work.
Ai (Anna Yamada) is an unpopular pupil who has always tried to fit in, and Yu (Yuzu Aoki) is a transfer student who more deliberately resists the demands of peer pressure.
Fans of The Faculty, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Williamson’s 1998 high-school riff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, might be….
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