This captivatingly eccentric, splendidly slapsticky Japanese Horror comedy has Noodles of charm and refreshingly off-kilter absurdity! Battle Heater: Kotatsu remains an absolute must-see for any that appreciate subversive wit along with their exultant WTF'ery!!! The lively performances, vivid practical FX and Iida's nimble filmmaking proved wholly irresistible! I enjoyed it that much more knowing nothing about the film beforehand, and, happily, understood even less once it had finished! I only wish more genre films would confound me so deliciously! There are a dazzling number of inventive, crisply edited set-pieces that lend Battle Heater: Kotatsu a toothsomely macabre Buster Keaton quality. The fascinatingly wayward inhabitants of Kirin Court are a compellingly strange lot, and one might have to dig a little deeper to discover a monster more enjoyably whimsical than an evilly sentient, insatiably man-eating, hungrily kilowatt sucking Kotatsu (heated table).
