Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)

Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.

Director:

Hideshi Hino

Writer:

Hideshi Hino

Stars:

Hiroshi Tamura, Kirara Yûgao

Cast

Credited cast:
Hiroshi Tamura
Kirara Yûgao

Storyline

A woman walking home late at night is attacked by an unknown assailant who knocks her out with chloroform. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself tied to a bed in a blood- spattered dungeon, at the mercy of a white-faced man in a samurai helmet who wants to turn her into a "flower of blood and flesh." He then proceeds to slowly dismember and disembowel her as the camera records it all.

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Plot Keywords:

injustice | dead animal | chicken | eccentricity | flower | 

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Genres:

Short | Horror

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

30 November 1985 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Slow Death: The Dismemberment

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sai Enterprise

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film gained some notoriety in 1991 when actor Charlie Sheen viewed it and came to believe that it was an illegal snuff film. He contacted the FBI with his complaint and an investigation ensued, but the movie was eventually proven to be merely a very realistic (yet completely fictional) horror film, and not a document of an actual murder.

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Goofs

When the woman gets chased by the assailant, the shadow of the assailant running reveals him holding the camera.

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Alternate Versions

A version of this film (and the rest of the Guinea Pig series) was released featuring subtitles for the first time.

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Connections

Follows Guinea Pig: Ginî piggu - Akuma no jikken (1985)

User Reviews

VIVA LA MUERTE!!!

This is definitely a necrophiliac little gem,that's for sure!!Everybody familiar with this film knows by now that this is not your standard run-of-the-mill horror fest with a developed storyline,main and several co-actors,average feature-film length,etc,etc.What you have here is nothing more,nothing less than a pseudo-snuff-peep-show that really impresses with it's wonderful sense of pure and clinical dis attachment to everything human.As the enlightened know,most humans are cattle,and here we have a jewel of a film that treats them as such.I bow down in admiration!!I think there is no need to call it horror,no this is pure and simple disintegration-erotica.To quote "the Gemini-killer" in "Exorcist 3";IT'S A Wonderful LIFE!A little piece of advice to the many biophiles out there:Stay away,this is a film designed for those with the acquired taste(or otherwise)of watching living structures crumble away!!