Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)

The second entry in the Guinea Pig series is another entry that's not all it's cracked up to be, but I must say it is better than the first.There are two things that ruined what could have otherwise been an effective experience, the cartoonish sound effects, and the fact that the woman was drugged the whole time, so she didn't feel anything and was pretty much zoned out the entire time. It would have been much more effective if she wasn't drugged and was feeling everything and screaming in pain the whole time, that would have been much more effective than just sitting there watching her get dismembered, something I've already seen in countless other horror movies, while she's basically half-asleep. The most disturbing part about the entire movie for me was seeing the woman lying there squirming with her dismembered limbs sitting next to her, rather than the parts where we actually saw her being dismembered. It's a shame because she really gave a good performance when she wasn't drugged, as a matter of fact the samurai gave a great performance too, so did the chicken, ha ha.Then there's the scene at the end where we get a long look at the samurai's "collection", for around three minutes we get close-ups of decomposing corpses with maggots and worms crawling inside, plastic arms in fish tanks, and arms planted in flower pots like plants. This was not so much disturbing and shocking as it was long and tedious.The movie, despite having a body count of one (two if you wanna count the chicken), manages to be very gory and it looks very realistic.While over-hyped, this is an improvement over the original Guinea Pig, having more convincing performances and despite being ineffective for the most part manages to be a lot less boring, especially if you're a gore-hound. The piano-like music that plays near the end is also very sad. I'd say it's worth at least one look.6.5/10

Right, if you're familiar with the basic history of „Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood", you probably know the story: Charlie Sheen saw this film in a party, thought it was an authentic snuff-film, carried it off to the authorities, who spent much time (and presumably many tax-dollars) investigating it and coming to the conclusion that it was indeed "only a movie".The morale and conclusion of the tale: Sheen was "winning" as usually (meaning: he was probably flying as high as a kite) and that there's the distinct need for the FBI to introduce IQ-tests before hiring their staff. Otherwise they would have thrown a glance at "Guinea Pig", determined that it's fake after roughly three minutes and thrown the drug-addled actor back unto the street (alternatively booking him for possession and DUI). If the obvious jelly and plastic replicas, obviously fake blood, the various camera angles and the dialogs performed by a painfully obvious actor still wouldn't have been an indication: watching the "Making-Off" would have indefinitely helped to shorten the FBI's "investigation".The "plot" of the actual movie is not even half as amusing as the real-life tale: man dressed in a plastic samurai-helmet kidnaps young, beautiful woman, drugs her, cuts off her limbs, eventually decapitating her, plucking out an eye from the disembodied head, sucking on the eyeball with cross-eyed excitement before adding the body parts to his "collection"; the perpetrator then drives off, searching for a new "victim". End credits.Granted, the effects are not bad at all; precise craftsmanship as we came to expect from a Japanese production, but never so realistic that it could fool anybody with good healthy eyes and half-a working brain. As such, it's less of a "real" film but rather a prank, a hoax and a display of special-effects craftsmanship.So, whom could I recommend this film to? Well, for one, sadists and jaded gorehounds who are one step away from searching for snuff-films on the internet. Secondly, people interested in good special-effects without the aid of a Hollywood-budget and to pranksters who would show it at parties, trying to determine which of their invited friends are gullible idiots.The film itself has no other merits.Now, all that's left to do is to wait until Hollywood films the story of "Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood", possibly a satire in the vein of Tim Burtons "Ed Wood"; possibly starring Sascha Baron Cohen as Charlie Sheen, in case the real deal happens to be "incapacitated".

This is the series that made the Saw and Hostel films. The guinea pig films will go down in film history as the titles that actually pushed the envelope of extreme violence. I thought I've seen it all, but when I put on Flower of flesh and blood I felt myself even putting my hand to my mouth in hopes that I don't vomit. This is what makes a horror movie. Its not about plot if you want fancy plots go watch a Shyamalan film. The Guinea pig series puts you in a dark room were you pray that all those creaking sounds are just the wood settling in to its place. You don't know the killers past, or what drives them, you only see their methods and hope not to bump into them on the streets. Most of these films are about a day in a life of a crazed killer with sick ambitions. You feel the violence, you don't want any part of the violence. This is not like SAW and elaborate killing traps, these killers get their hands dirty and don't leave anything to the imagination. If Dahmer was watching these films he'd be getting murder flashbacks. Warning to those who get easily offended, these films are NOT for you in anyways. You'll only start hating mankind for the fact that killers can be that sick-minded. This is Macabre visually defined, immensely brought out and poured on your dinner plate with Bowels and scooped up eyeballs.

Satoru Ogura, your average Japanese horror fan, had pretty much lost faith in horror at one point, and therefore decided to make some of the most gruesome horror movies ever. Fake snuff movies, showing nothing more than brutal torture and murder, in all too revealing detail. And so the Guinea Pig series was born. After teaming up with famous manga artist Hideshi Hino, the two quickly started shooting two movies simultaneously - Ogura and Hino both did one. The first movie to actually be released (in 1986 to be exact) was the Ogura-directed Devil's Experiment, and a quick summary on its contents would be 'three men torture and murder a woman'. In short, the movie had nothing to offer but humilation, gore, and torture - but surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly) proved to be some sort of success. Although it was only available at underground porn shops and the like, the video quickly found its way to fans of extreme horror and gorehounds.It appears that our samurai has actually set out to add this woman to his so-called collection - by cutting her to tiny, little pieces that is. He uses pretty much everything to do this - knife, chisel, saw, axe; you name it, he's got it. At points, the man addresses the camera and informs the viewer on what's he going to do next, whilst mixing in some random philosophy on flowers, flesh, and blood. Now, if you thought the story was only just starting to unfold, I'm sorry to disappoint you. Flower Of Flesh And Blood both starts and ends at the exact same point - literally.The actors deserve at least some credit. The male actor (his real name has never been revealed) does a great job at portraying the psycho cosplay killer, making him look just as insane as you'd expect a murderous maniac to be. The female actor (presumably Kirara Yugao) does not much more than lying around and moaning - but she does it all too well. The moaning is at times somewhat reminiscent of that heard in porn movies, but is far less distracting than most other sound effects. The chops, gurgles, cuts, guzzles, and burps seem to be inserted randomly and take away from the presumably desired snuff effect.In all its simplicity, Flower Of Flesh And Blood tries for some basic cinematic 'tricks' (if you could even call them that) to spice up the movie for a bit. Camera angles switch often at times, preventing the viewer from falling asleep, and some, err, interesting points of view are also thrown into the mix - most notably the chicken's. However, that's it - all of it.