Great Film overall

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Why? Why why why why why does this movie exist? In what possible world did anyone think that this movie would be at all acceptable to film? I shouldn't say movie, it besmirches the name of the great art form of the twentieth century. For this is not a movie. It desperately wants to be a snuff film; the connotations of that are more disturbing than the events recorded on film. Here is the plot: a man chloroforms a woman. He dresses in a samurai outfit and proceeds to cut her into pieces. No names. No reasons. No other plot. Just disgusting, artless violence. This "thing" is highly hyped in the disturbing movies scene. That is the only reason I came to it. It appears on many lists of the most disturbing movies ever, and in fact, there is probably no other way that anyone would come to this. All those lists are wrong. a) As I said before, this isn't a movie and b) it is not at all disturbing. It is gross, oh yes. Our closing shots are of severed limbs being feasted on by maggots. A chicken is decapitated and its blood is spilled all over our victim. We see dismemberment in gory detail. Close ups of tendons snapping etc, etc. It would be hypocritical of a exploitation lover like myself to continue. Suffice to say that people searching for blood and guts will get far, far to much. And that is it. But I have a feeling that even they will be turned away. You see, this is not an exploitation splatter picture. Those have a place in a cinema.The only place where this film belongs is in the basement of a serial killer, surrounded by the probably more artistic, actual snuff films of their own creation. This is the lowest of the low. There is no excuse for it. The world would be better if no one else watched it.

don't understand why some people are saying that the effects in the guinea pig films,especially the two simulated snuff titles, flower of flesh and blood and devils experiment, look unrealistic because it just isn't true. these people obviously have no clue what their talking about. i have seen multiple mondo films and shockumentaries and one of the scenes that has always stuck with me was of an iragi man getting his hand cut off for stealing which in comparison to the woman in flower suffering the same type of mutilation to her hand isn't any more realistic or convincing but as most of you probably know the previously mentioned iragis fate was not staged and was not a gore effect it was for real. there are very few faults as far as the special effects go in both films. the only minor details that show either film to be staged are objects in the environment that just shouldn't be their such as the blanket that covers the woman throughout her mutilation (flower) or the actresses response to her torture (flower and devils exp.) all i want to clarify by writing this is that all these pretentious people that have seen either of the two films and call the effects bad should sit down and watch what its like to see a real persons body be mutilated its not a pretty sight and unless you have just shut the hell up and don't criticize the effects in either film because you have no idea how truly realistic they are. oh yeah make sure your kids don't get ahold of 'em because if they do they will certainly be scarred for the rest of their lives.

Well, I did it. I found and watched all 42 minutes of "Guinea Pig 2: Flowers of Flesh and Blood". Seeing how the series seems focused on gore (although the fourth installment which apparently features a mermaid sounds disgusting and yet oddly artistic, unlike the rest of them) and is largely unconnected I went for the 'accomplishment' of having seen what is supposedly the most extreme one. Also the favorite film of the first five in the series, prominently displayed among notorious serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki's 5000-strong video collection, and supposedly the inspiration for his own crimes. When Charlie Sheen came across a battered VHS copy of this in the late 80's he was convinced it was real and reported it to the FBI. Eventually the makers of the film had to prove the effects were fake (as Deodato did with "Cannibal Holocaust").As a look into the darkest corners of the human mind this is worth a look. But is it really? Can't you just read up on some serial killers or something if you want to be 'disturbed'. Watching this was ultimately a fairly worthless experience, and outside of the undoubtedly impressive (though certainly fake-looking) special effects, there is really absolutely nothing else to recommend with this 'film'. Clearly the cinematically illiterate who claim that this is some sort of great art film are nincompoops? I mean, come on. It's 42 minutes of dismemberment. The special effects are fairly admirable, but there is literally nothing else of worth here.I sat through it. I suppose that this is something I thought I should see for myself due to its notoriety and reputation. Not that I was expecting it to be good, but I at least thought it would be worthwhile. Don't fool yourselves, this is on the level of a high school student film technically, there is no 'writing' to speak of (well, except some rambling about blood resembling flowers or some nonsense like that), and the 'actor' in the lead role spends most of the 'movie' looking pretty goofy. The abducted woman, 'guinea pig' if you will, is asleep most of the time. There is nothing here except something for fledgling serial killers to watch while sharpening their knives. I'm not dismissive of 'shock' films in general, some of them can be genuinely well-made and reasonably compelling films. This simply isn't one. It's absolute garbage, cinematic puke. Truly one of the worst films ever made, and my hatred comes not from being 'offended'. Watching this isn't watching somebody being tortured, it's torturing yourself.0/10

This is the series that made the Saw and Hostel films. The guinea pig films will go down in film history as the titles that actually pushed the envelope of extreme violence. I thought I've seen it all, but when I put on Flower of flesh and blood I felt myself even putting my hand to my mouth in hopes that I don't vomit. This is what makes a horror movie. Its not about plot if you want fancy plots go watch a Shyamalan film. The Guinea pig series puts you in a dark room were you pray that all those creaking sounds are just the wood settling in to its place. You don't know the killers past, or what drives them, you only see their methods and hope not to bump into them on the streets. Most of these films are about a day in a life of a crazed killer with sick ambitions. You feel the violence, you don't want any part of the violence. This is not like SAW and elaborate killing traps, these killers get their hands dirty and don't leave anything to the imagination. If Dahmer was watching these films he'd be getting murder flashbacks. Warning to those who get easily offended, these films are NOT for you in anyways. You'll only start hating mankind for the fact that killers can be that sick-minded. This is Macabre visually defined, immensely brought out and poured on your dinner plate with Bowels and scooped up eyeballs.