AMERICAN GUINEA PIG (2014)
The full title is American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore. Yes, this is a western accrual of the legendary Japanese series of exploitative nightmares captured on film. Others have been produced since, and the probability of you hunting them down is tied directly with your opinion of baseless violence. It's fictional, sure, but this shit doesn't always feel fictional. It would be more effective without the hokey dialogue ("I had to change my underwear.") and the substandard acting. I did more laughing than I expected. Maybe that's a good thing, as I came away with my sanity unscathed.
I don't mean to overstate American Guinea Pig's brutal nature, and yet, I really haven't. The guts and gore of the subtitle are laid on thick, often within a sexual lexicon. You're basically watching two girls being flayed, dismembered, disemboweled and worse for 70+ minutes, all while kept alive with drugs and tourniquets. The practical effects are outstanding. Seriously, there is no substitute for in-camera "movie magic." American Guinea Pig has a narrow audience, but fans of the Japanese series should be pleased. I'm not sure what drove me to view this dementia, but my curiosity is slaked. Um, the gore is gory? Yeah, that's my review.
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