A Disappointing Continuation

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

A true classic of Shocking and Disturbing Cinema. Guinea Pig: Flowers Of Flesh and Blood is the second and best of the entry of the Japanese series of films.The story is simple a woman is kidnapped and slowly dismembered by a mad man. We get to see every limb slowly and gorily removed from her body with squishy sound effects adding to the brutality we are witnessing on screen. The maniac dawning a samurai helmet and white face paint gives a creepy monologue as to why he is committing such atrocities while he is slowly adding his new bloody trophies to his already large collection.Guinea Pig: Flowers Of Flesh and Blood ranks up there with films like Irreversible, Salo, A Serbian Film, The August Underground Trilogy etc. One can not call themselves a true fan of Extreme Cinema until they have seen this movie. A Must see.

This is the most talked about entry into the Guinea Pig box and that for a few reasons. First of all, the director got in troubles after the release of this flick because a murderer was out in Japan who copycat this flick. When the cops did some research in his house they found the Guinea Pig flick but it was another title, sadly for the director some time later they found this flick at the house of the killer. In the eighties there were a lot of rumours about snuff flicks and this was supposed to be real. Charlie Sheen watched this flick and called the cops that he just watched a snuff. Immediately copies came available on the black market. Slowly it was revealed that it wasn't the real stuff.I just can't understand how it is possible that people thought to have seen a real snuff. The effects done were okay but the quality and the editing could never been done like this in a real snuff. I even didn't found it that gory after all and you know why, because they overdubbed it with a terrible sound of cutting flesh and breaking bones. If you look closely you could see that the samurai guy his teeth were painted black. Back then indeed the telees were smaller but somebody must have noticed that. At the end when he is saying his poem and shows his other victims it becomes unbelievable, even searching for his next victim....common. For me , the first entry, The Devils Experiment looked more like the real stuff.It still looks great and it is gory but not the most gory flick I have ever seen. Some people still say that this is the most gory flick, well, go watch the French brutal horror flicks on part of reality or gore for example. Gore 2,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

This is the second addition to the Guinea Pig series, and probably the most infamous. The film follows a young women who is kidnapped by a man in a samurai suit. The young lady finds herself tied to a bed and drugged. The drugs that are given to her not only prevent her from feeling any pain, but in fact makes her enjoy it to a degree. The samurai man begins cutting off limbs and slicing the women up left and right, but he is not doing it to be cruel, he is doing it for beauty. In his eyes its not only the outer appearance of a women that makes her beautiful but it is also what is inside.Personally the film itself was kind of dull, with having virtually not plot at all, but I am amazed by how detailed and realistic the special effects are. The film focuses on every detail of the human body and how it reacts when getting a sharp blade through it, and slicing it apart. I was jaw dropped by what I saw. Like I have said in previous posts I personally didn't find this film to be very disturbing, but I have become almost completely desensitized do to viewing films like these over the years. I think for the average horror fan that this would be a landmark film in their horror viewing, and would definitely open their eyes to something they have not seen before. But for the hardcore gorehounds such as myself it is good to just have a copy of this film for its novelty.

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.