GUINEA PIG: DEVIL'S EXPERIMENT


(ginipiggu: akuma no jikken)

1988 Hideshi Hino Japan


Without a doubt the most gut-wrenchingly vile movies i have ever seen. This video was the first of the infamous Guinea Pig series, followed by Flowers Of Flesh And Blood, Android Of Notre Dame and He Never Dies.

What plot there is concerns a young girl (who looks kinda like Jackie Chan) who has ben abducted by a creepy Yakuza gang. These thugs begin a grueling routine of abuse. They savagely beat and kick the poor girl, pour hard liquor down her throat while spinning her around in a chair, scald her with boiling oil, and pour maggots in the fresh wounds. it all culminates in the much talked about eyeball skewering.

To be honest, i barely made it through this movie, and it only runs 43 minutes long. The eyeball scene is very realistic and nasty, but it doesn't compare to the brutality of the earlier scenes of the men smacking the poor girl, which seems a little TOO real.

This one will have ya running for the shower. A nasty mean-spirited piece of trash that i kinda feel guilty for owning.




GUINEA PIG: FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD


(ginnipiggu 3: chinuku no hana)

1990 Hideshi Hino Japan


The second in the series, and the one responsible for the cult status of them all.

Back in about 1991, actor Charlie Sheen was at a Hollywood coke party when someone popped this fucker in the VCR. Old Charlie probably got exited, expecting to see a porno, and was shocked by the gruesome scenes of a woman being dimembered. Well, then our hero Charles got in touch with the FBI, explaining that he had just seen a real snuff film, and that Japan should be bombed. A year long investigation uncovered that it was not in fact a snuff film, but a gory no budget shocker made by Japanese film students.

Flowers Of Flesh And Blood is a very gross flick. A seedy, dirty atmosphere and incredible FX, but only a hooker fucking movie star coke-head would think that it was real.

The movie opens with a young woman being stalked through the streets of Tokyo. She is eventually chlorophormed and kidnapped. She wakes up tied to a bed in a dirty basement. A man dressed as a samuri shoots her up with heroin and cuts a chicken's head of in front of her and no, not even the chicken was really killed, the was FX work too. He then proceeds to slowly dismember her, using a variety of saws, knives and chisels.

The nastiest part is when the samuri cuts of the woman's arms at the shoulders. He uses a knife first, then when he hits bone, he pulls out the chisel, painfully tapping it with a hammer.

Overall much easier to watch than Devil's Experiment, but i still couldn't reccomend it, it's still too gross. The FX is really top notch stuff, and the film makers had to put together a behind the scenes tape to prove that it was fake, much like Lucio Fulci and Carlo Rambaldi had to 30 years earlier for the film Lizard In A Woman's Skin.

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