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Director: Kazuo Komizu)
Starring: Saeko Kizuki,
Naomi Hagio, Megumi Kawashima, Megumi Ozawa, Ayako
Ishii, Seira Kitagawa
Screenplay: Kazuo Komizu)
Country: Japan
AKA: Bijo No Harawata;
Entrails of a Beautiful Woman; Guts of a Virgin
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Warning: Not much happens story wise in this movie,
so to relay the basic plot reveals things that occur
over halfway through the film. The film isn't
complex, so I doubt I've said anything that
would ruin the movie for anyone, but here's
a warning anyway.
Completely ignore the synopsis on the back of
the DVD case. Seems the geniuses that decided
it'd be a good idea to re-release Guts
of a Beauty on the world also decided
to confuse everyone by swapping the synopsis with
that of the film's prequel.
Like its predecessor Entrails of a Virgin, Guts of a Beauty is heavily padded.
Again, the focus is on twisted sex, but at least
this time there's a real monster. The film
opens with a Yakuza gang raping a girl they've
abducted. This gang is in the racket of abducting
women, raping them, turning them into drug addicts,
and selling them as sex slaves. The women don't
struggle too much during the rape scenes. At least
there's no misogyny in this instalment,
eh? One of the Yakuza's recent abductions
is actually a girl looking for her sister, who'd
already been sold by the gang.
The new abductee gets away and ultimately kills
herself, but not before giving enough information
to a female psychologist that allows the psychologist
to track down the Yakuza. The psychologist starts
to investigate and she hooks up with a member
of the Yakuza who is the former boyfriend of the
sister that first disappeared. Seems he still
misses her and she was sold by one of the clan's
other members. The psychologist hypnotizes him
to kill his clan, but it doesn't work and
he leads the group back to the psychologist. She
gets abducted, is sodomized while having her face
forced into a female gang associate's crotch,
then gets injected with a drug. The drug begins
to make her skin ripple, an effect facilitated
with some off camera blow dryers, and she turns
into a big, angry, slimy, covered in blood monster
with a dick that rivals Oderus Urungus'
for size.
The psychologist monster begins to dispatch the
various Yakuza members by doing things like revert
to human form to seduce one, have sex, snap his
neck, and then finish out the sex act. Another
she attacks as the monster, retracts her penis,
and suffocates him with her reformed vagina. That
may sound interesting, but it takes 50 minutes
for the monster to show up, and there's
only 20 minutes left in the movie when it does,
and not all of the remaining runtime is monster
related.
Guts of a Beauty's raison
d'être is the graphic sex, including
a presumably faked oral scene which is optically
censored (yet another involving the monster dick
is not) and a woman smearing cum on her face to
make a guy think he'd ejaculated in her
mouth. The film does improve upon its prequel
in that there are some okay horror FX, but there
is a slight problem even there. Veins bulge out…but
it looked better the first time round in Scanners.
A man gets decapitated from the mouth up...Buttgereit
did this better, though less messily, in Nekromantik.
The monster's penis erupts out of a woman's
stomach…just like the chestburster in Alien.
There's some okay dismemberment and stabbings…but
also some really hokey knife wounds. The monster
transforms at the end…but it looks terrible.
Yes, it's all either been done before, been
done better, or is zeroed out by a complete garbage
effect - and most of the okay effects are connected
to a crap one. With the FX not makin' the
film, the only reason to see it is if you want
to hear characters say things like, "I haven't
taken a bath yet. Can you smell it?" |
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