This is the second part in the Guinea Pig series, and this is the bloodiest part, the sickest is, in my opinion, the first part, Devil's Experiment. Flowers of Flesh and blood is directed by Hideshi Hino, who has made at least Mermaid in a Manhole, the fourth Guinea Pig film. The "story" involves this psychopath who is dressed as samurai and kidnaps an innocent girl in the street. He takes her to his house, drugs her unconscious and slowly starts to disembowel and mutilate the girl in sadistic detail, occasionally saying something to the camera. This is the most controversial and infamous Guinea Pig and also one of the most feared sicko flick in the world. Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen saw accidentally a copy of this film, and was 100% positive of it being a genuine snuff film and so he took the tape to police/FBI and the investigations began. I'm not sure how large investigations were in Japan or America, but I've heard that the film makers had to prove to authorities how they made the effects and thus show that the act committed in the film is NOT real and the girl didn't die, and that is the case: this is NOT snuff film, and all the sick things that happen in the screen are faked and acted.
The next paragraph tells the things what our psycho does to the girl and so they can be considered spoilers.
The scenes are pretty repulsive and blood is everywhere, but this is not realistic as the girl would've bled to death immediately after the first arm was cut off. After the samurai has cut off all the limbs, he slowly disembowels her and after that mutilates her face and eyes and finally cuts off her head. Sounds nice, doesn't it? After the girl is dead (=the head removed) we are shown that there are many other limbs and corpses in his house and the girl was not the only victim. The house crawls with worms that are eating the bodies and all the images in the film are repulsive. The film ends when we see that man again in the streets of Japan hunting another young girl with things in his mind..So who directs a sequel? Hopefully no one.
No "spoilers" anymore.
Flowers of Flesh and Blood is among the sickest and goriest films I've seen but it cannot be considered too significant cinematic merit. The scenes in the samurai's apartment are "haunting" and "dark" but since the film is so shock intended and has no any value as a real film, I can't consider this too noteworthy piece of cinema, and it is only intended to shock, as the whole Guinea Pig series. Junkies of Japanese horror movies will probably want to check and try to find copies of these, but others should stay away. Even though it is so over the top, it is not as sick as all have said, so some may even be disappointed when they expect something totally unmatchable in sicko department. After all, I'm glad I've seen this and most of the Guinea Pig series, because having not seen them, I wouldn't be able to know what these are about, and horror fanzines have written so much about these that a natural interest as a horror buff raised. And I was pretty lucky to get copies of these films, that are not too much distributed, and that is pretty positive thing! After all I've said about horror fans and others, my opinion still is that these are not noteworthy films and cannot be considered "real" films and they only want to deliver shocks and disgust the viewer without any other merits. Flowers of Flesh and Blood cannot even be considered a feature film since its running time is mere 40+ minutes.
The next paragraph tells the things what our psycho does to the girl and so they can be considered spoilers.
The scenes are pretty repulsive and blood is everywhere, but this is not realistic as the girl would've bled to death immediately after the first arm was cut off. After the samurai has cut off all the limbs, he slowly disembowels her and after that mutilates her face and eyes and finally cuts off her head. Sounds nice, doesn't it? After the girl is dead (=the head removed) we are shown that there are many other limbs and corpses in his house and the girl was not the only victim. The house crawls with worms that are eating the bodies and all the images in the film are repulsive. The film ends when we see that man again in the streets of Japan hunting another young girl with things in his mind..So who directs a sequel? Hopefully no one.
No "spoilers" anymore.
Flowers of Flesh and Blood is among the sickest and goriest films I've seen but it cannot be considered too significant cinematic merit. The scenes in the samurai's apartment are "haunting" and "dark" but since the film is so shock intended and has no any value as a real film, I can't consider this too noteworthy piece of cinema, and it is only intended to shock, as the whole Guinea Pig series. Junkies of Japanese horror movies will probably want to check and try to find copies of these, but others should stay away. Even though it is so over the top, it is not as sick as all have said, so some may even be disappointed when they expect something totally unmatchable in sicko department. After all, I'm glad I've seen this and most of the Guinea Pig series, because having not seen them, I wouldn't be able to know what these are about, and horror fanzines have written so much about these that a natural interest as a horror buff raised. And I was pretty lucky to get copies of these films, that are not too much distributed, and that is pretty positive thing! After all I've said about horror fans and others, my opinion still is that these are not noteworthy films and cannot be considered "real" films and they only want to deliver shocks and disgust the viewer without any other merits. Flowers of Flesh and Blood cannot even be considered a feature film since its running time is mere 40+ minutes.