Flower of Flesh and Blood FLOWER OF FLESH & BLOOD (English Subtitles) A deranged man kidnaps a poor defenseless woman and takes here back to his house. There he slowly and dismembers her in painstaking detail for the viewers who are watching this video.
DEVIL'S EXPERIMENT
(English Subtitles)The premise behind this shot on video Japanese short film from 1988 is that it�s basically a representation of a snuff film that was circulating in certain unsavory circles in Japan in the early 1980s. That�s all you really need to know going into it, and it�s explained in the subtitles at the beginning of the film. What follows is pretty much filmed nihilism - a cinematic study in torture and violence.
A woman is abducted, who she is, we don�t know. Her name is never mentioned. Her three captors, all dressed in black, also never reveal their names or their reasoning behind her abduction. All we know is that they�ve got her, they�ve bound her, and they�re going to put her through some of the most perverse and disturbing tortures you can think of, to test the limits of the human body and see how much pain it can withstand.
The nameless victim is punched repeatedly viciously and kicked around, and then it starts to get nasty. Salt is rubbed into her abrasions, maggots are poured into her eyes and onto her open wounds, and her skin is pulled at and twisted with pliers, her fingers nails are ripped out of her fingers. She�s spun around so fast and so viciously that I almost got motion sickness watching it. It all culminates in a horrific climax where her near lifeless, sleeping body is pelted with raw meat until she�s covered in the guts of dead animals. When she wakes up, they stick a needle under the skin and through her eyeball.
None of this is left to the viewer�s imagination. It�s all shown, oft times in horrific close ups. The violence in this film is shocking and horrifying. There is no mercy shown at any time to the victim, and the movie dares you to keep watching. In short, this film wants to hurt you. And it succeeds. It�s painful to watch. The gore effects are pretty realistic and unless you pay really close attention, it�s hard (though certainly not impossible) to see where they�re faked.
MERMAID IN A MANHOLE (English Subtitled) An artist paints whatever he finds in a sewer and guess what he finds there? A mermaid, so he takes her home and puts her in the bathtub and starts to paint her portrait. The only thing wrong here is she starts to rot and worms start to come out of every pore on her body. She also has these multi-colored pus filled nodules that she squeezes into his paint bucket so he can paint his glorious masterpiece. Truly disgusting and wonderfully demented. I recommend this one highly. A man is arrested in for the dismemberment of a woman. Police are puzzled as to the explanation of the circumstances surrounding the horrendous murder. The man "who we cannot name here" was promptly arrested at the scene. A psychiatric evaluation is performed on the murderer and the prognosis is schizophrenia. Still in a comatose state and jabbering incomprehensibly, only two words are ever understood. The words are BEAUTIFUL and MERMAID. Over and over he repeats them until his mouth is parched and his lips cracked and even then his raspy voice still whispers the words until he lays unconscious...
HE NEVER DIES (English Subtitles) The Tokyo police answer the call of a frantic couple who say they have discovered their friend�s body, mutilated beyond belief. When the police arrive they suspect foul play. Pieces of the corpse are strewn about the room in a fashion that shows someone has been playing with the body parts while the body was being dismembered. Evidence is tagged and bagged and the pieces of the man�s corpse are sent to the morgue for a thorough autopsy. There they discover the incredible truth. All of the slashes and gouges were administered with the right hand and, from closer examination of the angle of the slash marks, they came to an outstanding conclusion. They were made by the victim's own hand...
ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME (English Subtitles) This movie, is totally different than the first film. Again, it�s a shot on video production from 1980�s Japan, but whereas Devils Experiment is more a plot less faux snuff study in torture and depravity, The Android of Notre Dame has a story to tell�. sort of. The dwarfish scientist, Dr. Karazawa hopes to save his dying sister from her fatal heart disease. To do this, he experiments on a �human guinea pig� that he buys from a mysterious man calling himself Kato. But when Kato pays the Dr. a visit hoping to extort some of his research money for himself, the Dr. makes Kato his next lab rat, literally removing his head from his body and keeping it alive with his super computer. Kato�s girlfriend starts investigating his whereabouts when he doesn�t come home and traces him back to the Dr�s house. After showing her his handiwork on Kato, he makes her his victim as well (in order to save his sister), all leading up to a gore-filled climax and a freaky ending. Android of Notre Dame is much more of a straight out horror film that Devils Experiment. The characters have names and motivations and the movie even has its share of very black humor. The effects in this one aren�t as effective as they are in the first feature; the low budget nature of the film is evident throughout, but the movie does have some pretty convincing gross outs, particularly at the end. Where the first feature is horrific and hard to watch, but highly effective in what it�s trying to be, the second one is an entertaining and gory schlock fest. Both are very different from each other, and both are interesting works for different reasons; one legitimately shocks and provokes - the other simply entertains and goes for the gross-out.
DEVIL DOCTOR WOMAN (English Subtitles) The tamest of the bunch but if you watched the whole series this one is much needed. A transtesticle has a game show I think? There's blood an guts but this one looks like it was made for the fun of it not for the shock value the others had. Still enjoyable in a hokey sort of way.
