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12 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
Different, 9 August 2003
Author: ogami-itto

I watched this film thinking it would be another gore fest like the Guinea Pig series and in some ways it is. Yes, there are disturbing sequences of mutilation, including the much talked about nipple slicing scene. But, there is an intelligence to this movie that lifts it out of the run-of-the-mill splatter territory. The plot involves a teenage boy genius who has invented a mystery potion he names My Son. His mother is a scientist performing contraceptive experiments on three different women, he spikes a harmless contraceptive drug with My Son and films the results, along the way falling in love with one of the subjects. This is an interesting and intelligent movie, while some of the more out-there sequences will put off many it is a must see for people looking for something different.

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12 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
Fantastic Japanese splatter film!, 26 May 2003

Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

Eiji,a young scientist invents serum called Myson which transforms the pain into pleasure.His mother is conducting medical experiment on three young women.Eiji decides to mix his serum with the experimental product that his mother is working on.Soon the girls start to hurt and mutilate themselves with a strange pleasure at doing it.The three main female actresses are truly interesting characters-one is obsessed with eating and her obsession later results in incredibly graphic and shocking self-cannibalism scene,another is obsessed with her image.The third,Rika Mikami suffers from extreme form of insomnia-a condition brought by the trauma of her first period."Naked Blood" is a slow-moving film filled with moments of totally extreme gore.The scene where one of the girls slowly eats her own nipple and eye has to be seen to be believed!Still the film is pretty difficult to understand,so fans of mindless Hollywood's horror should avoid it.A must-see for fans of Japanese extreme cinema.10 out of 10!

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12 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
essential viewing, 3 October 2000
Author: white pongo (wap@nyc.odn.ne.jp) from tokyo japan

Sato's extension of his earlier GENUINE RAPE is an incredible transgressive horror movie.A teenage boy sabotages his mother's anti-pregnancy experiments by spiking the test injections with his own endorphin called "Myson".Myson is his own concoction which turns pleasure into pain.The greater the pain,the greater the pleasure.Without wanting to spoil any surprises,i can warn the more weak hearted that there are some shocking scenes (a woman eats her own vagina lips with a knife and fork).But for viewers up to it,it's a fascinating,intelligent dissection of a movie that unwaveringly follows it's own premise no matter where it leads (like prime David Cronenberg for example).And it's a top notch exploitation classic. Sato is a very prolific director who's made countless movies (usually in the areas of sex and violence) since the 80's-but as far as i know,only this and THE BEDROOM are available subtitled in English. Did i mention the Virtual Reality cactus?

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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Disturbing... Yet An Excellent Film, 12 October 2006

Author: CMRKeyboadist from Sleesburg, VA.

I should start off by saying that I am a huge gorehound. I like movies that take things to the extreme. I heard of this movie through watching the infamous Guinea Pig series. A person from IMDb specifically told me if I liked that series that I should love Naked Blood. After a few months of searching for this title I finally came across it. What I thought was going to be a straight splatter fest turned into a rather psychological film that just happened to have some really disturbing elements to it.

The storyline is not really what is in the forefront of the movie, more or less, it was the atmosphere and moodiness of the film (and of course the gore), but I will give a brief description anyway. A 17 year old boy genius has created a serum that if injected will turn pain into pleasure. He decides to test it on three girls and the results are exactly what you think they might be.

This film is so much more then that brief description, though. There is a lot of bizarre elements to the film that in one viewing couldn't possibly be understood. Hell, I don't even know if multiple viewings could sum up what the meaning of this film is. If you have seen this movie, you should know what I am talking about. If you haven't seen this then just watch it for yourself.

In my opinion, this was a great movie. Easily becomes one of my favorites. If you can find it, buy it. 9/10

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8 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Total grue, 3 February 2004
Author: Ed Cowell from Cleveland, OH

NAKED BLOOD is one of those movies that go way too far, showing the viewer things they don't want to see with no apology whatsoever. I had heard how extreme it was and wanted to see it. I was not disappointed, because there's an actual story happening here, not just mindless gore. Not that there's anything wrong with mindless gore...I just wasn't

prepared for the film to be so thought-provoking and beautiful.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Not the film I was expecting; an intelligent slice of J-horror, 17 February 2007
Author: DVD_Connoisseur from England

There are some films I've put off viewing for a long time as I've been informed they contain material that is simply too strong, too offensive to be tolerated. One of these films is "Naked Blood". Imagine my surprise, then, when I finally sat down to watch the recent US release of this cult movie last night and found the film to be both intelligent and well-made. Yes, it contains some graphic scenes but they need to be put in context with what else is contained within the horror genre. While some of the scenes in "Naked Blood" are, I believe, unique, there's nothing here that will corrupt the viewer or overwhelm him / her with its content. In terms of violence, the bloodshed in "Naked Blood" is no worse than many other underground horror films.

What "Naked Blood" delivers is a thoughtful, almost fly-on-the-wall, unfolding of events as a young doctor's son, Sadao Abe, creates an antidote to pain. When he tampers with his mother's experiment by including his special pain-relieving fluid with her new contraceptive, things go very wrong, very fast.

I knew details of most of the horrific scenes before I watched "Naked Blood" but the movie did contain a few surprises. The effects work is excellent but the film succeeds because of its atmosphere and performances rather than elements of "gross out" horror.

Even with its bizarre ending, I enjoyed "Naked Blood" and would recommend it to genre fans.

7 out of 10.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Surreal and fascinating gorefest, 2 February 2005

Author: Indyrod from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This is a very interesting movie and a little hard to review. It starts out as a teen scientist develops a brain altering drug that is supposed to cure pain. His Mother is a research scientist conducting a research project with three women concerning birth control. Her Son slips some of his drug into his Mother's experiment to test it out, and then watches especially one of the patients to see what happens. This evolves rather slowly at first as we watch subtle changes in the three women. One is obsessed with food, another with her appearance, and the one he follows around is the strange one. She never sleeps and spends much of time with a virtual machine like thing connected to a cactus. Yes, a cactus. What happens soon, is the drug starts doing its thing and two of the women start exhibiting bizarre behavior, but not the cactus lady. The food lady becomes obsessed with her own body, and basically starts eating her own body parts. Oh yea, this is WAY over the top and the gore just keeps a coming once it starts. The second lady becomes obsessed with pain, and begins sticking all types of piercings into her body. It seems the drug does do away with pain, but causes an addiction where as the lady has a compulsion for more and more self-inflicted pain. The cactus lady is not showing much of any changes, but her world is pretty bizarre regardless of the drug. This becomes pretty confusing as dream sequences pop out of nowhere and seem to put a different spin on everything that has been going on. Did the other two women die from the drug, or did the cactus lady actually kill them? To be honest, I don't have a clue, and that would be a spoiler anyway if I did. Disturbing, yes, very very disturbing. Confusing? Not at first, but the dream sequences bring in a new element that is a little difficult to figure out. This has some spectacular gore, mainly with the food lady that eats herself. I've never seen anything like that in my life, and that alone puts this movie in a class by itself. This movie also has a Gozu (ending) type scene that is absolutely incredible. Disturbing, surreal, ultra-gory, those are all good descriptions of this fascinating movie. This one is for hardcore gorehounds.

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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Strange and strongly visual, 29 October 2007

Author: stormruston from victoria bc

This movie has a strange softness to it between scenes of intense violence. It is sur-real and over the top.

It is a dream-like movie.

Hisayasu Sato added a real story to this one, well a start and a end of a story, just not a beginning and a finish..but who cares?

Do people watch these for the story or the shock value? Shock value here is about 90%.The Story is interesting but has holes, at 78 minutes that is not surprising. The effects are amazing. This is a movie for gore fans and those that like "weird but inoffensive." Not really worth looking for unless you are a collector.. but if you find it do watch it.

One strange flaw was the over the top sound effects, I have never heard a nipple "crunch" until this movie.

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9 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Hit, kick, bore., 3 February 2005

Author: agoraphobicnosebleed from Netherlands

A movie that is supposed to be 100% gore, 100% bloody and 100% extreme(as the Japan Shock DVD cover modestly states), is a movie I gotta see. I love gore movies, and with all the praise Naked Blood had been getting, well, I just had to check it out. Pity to say, I was disappointed.

Hisayasu Sato is, of course, one of the biggest names in extreme Japanese cinema, responsible for movies such as Lolita: Vibrator Torture and Rape: For Real. Naked Blood is a step away from these mainly sex-driven movies, and even tries for some sort of plot. Kid scientist invents new painkiller, tests it on three girls who then start to experience pain as pleasure. With all the horrible results you can imagine.

Now, the gore in the movie is definitely gory, although it's all very bearable. But where does this movie go wrong then? Imo, its problem lies in the fact that it's overly pretentious. A plot is one thing, but a Freudian hyper-bizarre moronic plot is another. The worst thing about the whole story though, is how generic it is - in all its bizarreness, it's never complex. Basically everything is predictable and, to be honest, boring. This movie has a runtime of 76 minutes, but it isn't even able to stay interesting.

In the end, the overall feeling you get from this movie is a 'wtf' one. Whether that's because of the fact that you couldn't stand the gore, found the story immensely complicated, or, like me, found it a moderately enjoyable waste of a good 76 minutes, I don't know, but wtf it shall be.

Leaves me to say that the old Super8 film Eiji's mother is watching is strangely intriguing, and possibly the highlight of this movie. Its faded colors and bright tone, combined with a mysterious 'plot', makes for a seriously interesting movie-in-a-movie. At this points, Hisayasu Sato displays a hidden genius. However, the rest of Naked Blood still is nothing but 100% mediocre.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Interesting idea... but farfetched - spoilers., 15 September 2003
Author: Bo Bandy (bandyimo@alltel.net) from Dalton, Ga.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Certain parts of this movie seemed amateurish and silly (The windex-esque 'my son' elixir, as well as his "Doogie Hauser like diary entries and his very adult sex scene toward the end... previously we were led to believe he was a precocious, bicycle riding teenager until he demonstrates the 'lotus' from the Kama Sutra! haha) ) while other aspects seemed surprisingly believable and well done. (the F/X and some of the dialog)

The premise of someone trying to invent a better painkiller to reverse discomfort is certainly realistic, and it's also quite true that pain and pleasure are closely linked in the brain as evident by masochists. I have no idea how they achieved some of the 'goretastic' effects in this film but I am impressed, especially with the eyeball scene. How the hell did they do that? It looks totally real. (Maybe the girl has an artificial eye??? LOL

I really liked the surreal elements toward the end (Climbing into the wound) although I confess I'm not sure what transpired in some cases. (The end.. what was that all about?) Ultimately I wanted to get across that the incredible gore and self mutilation in this film are not it's only 'positive' merits. (Although I doubt many people wouldn't cringe during some of the mutilation scenes....

There almost seems to be a cautionary tale being told here.... (and that being possibly: "Boy geniuses have no business squirting windex looking wonder drugs into his mother's medical experiments, even if he is convinced he has cured pain forever.)

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