Low-grade, Japanese obscurity Women's Flesh: My Red Guts consists of two shot-on-video segments depicting gruelling scenes of graphic self-mutilation, all designed to appear as gut-churningly real as possible: in the first, a woman chews off one of her fingers and chokes herself to death with a scarf; the woman in part two stabs herself in the leg with a fork, cuts open her belly, chows down on her guts, slices off her tongue, and eventually kills herself by thrusting the fork into her forehead.
There's no plot to speak of and hardly any dialogue—just plenty of extremely bloody imagery designed to appease fans of ultra-violent, transgressive pseudo-snuff. This super-sick effort certainly has the right look and feel to it—the makers have gone out of their way to give their work an authentic home-made feel, complete with crappy, z-grade image quality, amateurish video effects (solarised and negative pictures), and a lo-fi soundtrack—but the film does tend to drag on far too long for its own good leading to a fair amount of tedium. At about half the runtime, the whole thing could have been much more effective.
N.B. Like the others who have commented on this film, my copy also featured a couple of trailers for some really harsh documentaries.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.
There's no plot to speak of and hardly any dialogue—just plenty of extremely bloody imagery designed to appease fans of ultra-violent, transgressive pseudo-snuff. This super-sick effort certainly has the right look and feel to it—the makers have gone out of their way to give their work an authentic home-made feel, complete with crappy, z-grade image quality, amateurish video effects (solarised and negative pictures), and a lo-fi soundtrack—but the film does tend to drag on far too long for its own good leading to a fair amount of tedium. At about half the runtime, the whole thing could have been much more effective.
N.B. Like the others who have commented on this film, my copy also featured a couple of trailers for some really harsh documentaries.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.