2. Guinea Pig: Flower Of Flesh and Blood (1985)
The film that famously frightened the heck out of Charlie Sheen, Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood is the second entry into the Ginipiggu movies, and has fooled many a one into thinking they are watching a bona fide snuff movie. Light on plot and heavy on action, Flower of Flesh and Blood is basically a lesson to the viewer on how to kidnap women, drug them and then dismember them in the cruellest way possible. Yes, that is basically the plot. A woman walking home late at night gets the chloroform treatment from an unknown attacker. She wakes up in a dungeon and the attacker, in a Samurai helmet, proceeds to dismember and disembowel her in a very protracted and detailed fashion. To watch and enjoy this film, you have to be a very hardened appreciator of depraved and sicko gore films. I have seen some of the sickest films alive, but they have a plot and a reason to exist. Guinea Pig 2 seems to exist only to showcase 40 minutes of butchery against a woman with no plot and for no reason, just for sheer sensationalism. Viewers are probably Hardcore Japanese gorehounds needing extreme stuff to get their kicks. I can't imagine anyone saying "Oh this is my favourite movie!" (at least, I hope). I am a great fan of Japanese extreme cinema and I own two other Guinea Pig titles - Mermaid in a Manhole and He Never Dies. But what the point of Flower and Flesh and Blood is, I just don't know. If you do get it, please enlighten me in the comments section below.