American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore (2014)
Matt Boiselle
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Starring Ashley Lynn Caputo, Caitlyn Dailey, Scott Gabbey
Directed by Stephen Biro
Distributed by Unearthed Films
Sometimes, ya just gotta flush out your eye sockets after what you’ve seen, and with Stephen Biro’s takeover of the Japanese Guinea Pig series, this one subtitled Bouquet of Guts and Gore, nothing could be more necessary than a substantial douching of the orbital cavities…the only thing is, if you’ve been desensitized to images and recreations like the ones contained in this film, there really isn’t much more to shock or awe the seasoned viewer.
Biro, who grabs the series that globally sent uptight do-gooders into outrageous fits, takes the simple premise of kidnapping and torture and hurls it at your face with the force of a major league fastball – you can see it coming, but 99 percent of the time you don’t even have the reflexes worthy of an all-out retreat. Japanese director Hideshi Hino led the charge back in 1985 with the first film that triggered a series of sequels, going so far as to have one reported to the FBI by Charlie Sheen, who mistakenly took it as a snuff film. An extensive fact-finding journey was undertaken to prove to authorities that the images contained in the movies were indeed staged, and now, the continuation (which is actually a prequel) comes Stateside with Biro’s direction and repulsive vision behind the lens.
The movie starts with two unlucky women who are abducted by a clever distraction in their car, then taken to an undisclosed location where they are bound, drugged with incredibly large doses of LSD (to immobilize and eliminate pain), and systematically dissected while a group of budding videographers film the heinous butchering with Super-8 cams. That’s it – end of description, and for the near majority of the 73-minute leap into utter depravity, we’re awash in a tidal wave of blood and viscera that overtakes a minute display of dialogue and backing score. Tourniquets are applied, and the sawing commences – the mere sound of bone being cut is enough to shake the enamel off of your teeth, and limbs are discarded with disdain after their crude removal…and that’s just the tame stuff!
As the film progresses, this mother-daughter combo is reduced to a mere fraction of their former selves, and the viewer gets to see every wince-generating moment, even so as to drag on in an ample supply, and this is the unfortunate side of the show. I actually began clock watching (which I’ve been known to do on occasion) as the minutes passed by, waiting to see what would transpire next, and I was lulled into a false sense of completion until the film’s final act, which even for this benumbed shock-monger came as an uneasy visual…yeesh.
Overall, I’d offer this Guinea Pig up to anyone who likes their carnage in voluminous allotment or to the newbie gorehound who wants to see if his weak stomach can deal with the 100-mph sanguine fluid facial that Biro dishes out. Unfortunately, I’ve already been that tiny bug smashing into the windshield, but at least I can appreciate some home-cooked brutality.
http://youtu.be/HmE1RU-AFWo
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