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Director: Kazuo 'Gaira'
Komizu
Starring: Saeko Kizuki,
Naomi Hagio, Osamu Tsuruoka, Hideki Takahashi
Screenplay: Kazuo 'Gaira'
Komizu
Country: Japan
AKA: Shojo no Harawata;
Entrails 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. Surprisingly, Guts of
a Virgin has been floating around on the
bootleg circuit for years. I would have thought
that as soon as one person saw it, word of mouth
would have ensured that no one else ever wasted
70 minutes of their lives on this misogynistic garbage.
Guts of a Virgin opens with
a montage of shitty, confusing shots. Various
photos of semi-naked women are mixed with footage
of a different photo shoot in session. The editing
gets a little better, but the story is so simple
my retarded parakeet could have come up with it,
so things might have been better if the movie
was as incoherent as its intro. Six people, three
female models, and three male photo crew members,
hole up in an abandoned house because the guys
wish to take advantage of their recent pictorial
subjects. Some mud smeared pseudo-deity man shows
up and begins killing them. Men go quickly, women
are fornicated with first.
This film has a reputation as being a sick and
twisted gorefest, but gore is not the focus, very
graphic soft-core sex is. Twisted and sick movie
all right, but not what I expected going in. The
sex element is made even less pleasant by the
complete degradation of the female characters.
There's a semi-nude wrestling match designed
JUST to insult the honour of the female contestant.
In another segment, a woman giving head stops
to voice her displeasure with the relationship
she's in only to be ignored, so she returns
to the task at hand. Then a very amped up guy
carries a woman around upside down and then ejaculates
down her throat, choking her (the viewer is treated
to seeing her cough up his seed in the most explicit
sexual moment of the movie).
If someone seeks Guts of a Virgin out for gore, they're gonna be sad, even
though the well hung mudman does dispatch virtually
every character. There's a guillotining,
somewhat similar to the one in Bloodsucking
Freaks, a horrible javelin related death,
a stupid hooking, and a guy who gets his head
smashed in with a hammer (the last image is what's
on the DVD cover). All these effects suck. The
only somewhat decent effect is a disembowelling;
if George Eastman were pulling intestines instead
of a foetus out of Serena Grandi in Anthropophagus,
it might have looked like this. This scene may
well be the né plus ultra of the murder
via crotch nastiness found in some of the horror
genre's more disturbing pics. Despite the
extreme nastiness of the scene, it is still a
bit silly due to the woman's skin's
rubbery look. And it's not even the virgin
who's disembowelled, so the title is just
dumb. The title should be Entrails of
a Scuzzy, Insane Model.
As stated, the mudman has sex with the women
before killing them. Of course, the women must
enjoy this. The reason? The mudman has a huge
stiffy. To show he's well endowed, a crew
member raises a long, thick object hidden in the
dark. Just light enough to see something, just
dark enough that the director could hope it might
look convincing. It doesn't. It couldn't
be too explicit anyway, or it would fall prey
to the dreaded Japanese optical censoring. |
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