Guinea Pig (1985) Starring Toshiki Hino, Yumi Lori, Mirel, Tomorrow Taguchi & Mio Takagi Written by Satoru Ogura Directed by Satoru Ogura

Guinea Pig 2: Flowers of Flesh is the most notorious of the series, thanks to Charlie Sheen's crack addled reporting of it to the FBI as an actual snuff film. Flowers of Flesh portrays the kidnapping and live dismemberment of a young girl by a dude with bad teeth wearing a samurai helmet. After he's finished, he adds her pieces to his collection of decomposing body parts, some of which are in-artfully arranged in flower pots.

Slight digression. While Flowers of Flesh features very skillfully rendered gore effects, based on the lighting, camerawork, and editing it was obvious to me that it was fake. You would think that someone who worked for a living in the film industry would also notice such things.

The Devil's Experiment only features a fraction of the gore that Flowers of Flesh does, as you would expect, the gore usually goes up as a series progresses. But it is The Devil's Experiment that really turned my stomach and reinforced my prejudice that the Japanese are the most fucked up people on the planet.

The Devil's Experiment also depicts the kidnapping and abuse of a young Japanese woman, but rather than simply dismembering her, its protagonists subject her to a series of escalating tortures, climaxing with shoving a long needle through her eye.

The movie opens with the girl being slapped in the face about 50 times. That was as much as I needed to see.

Quick test: Do you enjoy watching a girl getting slapped in the face 50 times? THEN THERE'S SOMETHING FUCKING WRONG WITH YOU!!!!

The Devil's Experiment does not bother with context or pretension to try and justify its exploitive treatment of violence against women. When the first two Guinea Pig movies were first released direct to video in Japan in the 1980s, they were sold as actual snuff films. They weren't the first movies sold as containing actual snuff footage (see my earlier review of Emmanuelle in America) but they may have been the first to purport to be nothing but snuff footage.

Sadly, the Guinea Pig films were also not the first Japanese films that featured extreme violence against women. They were not the third or 15th or even the 49th. Japanese cinema has a long tradition of glorifying rape and abuse of women which continues unabated to the present. The only thing that has changed is the progression from soft core to hard core sex.

Here's a partial list of some of the movie titles produced in the land of sushi and seppuku: Sadistic Violence to Ten Virgins, Entrails of a Beauty, Serial Rape of Office Ladies, Maniac Rapist with Handcuffs, Three Days of Subhuman Treatment, I'll Rape You Whenever I Want, and of course, Mad Masturbator in a Gasmask.

And we aren't even discussing the thousands of volumes of similarly themed manga.

I've read a few reviews of The Devil's Experiment that try to apply context to the film that just isn't there. The people who wrote those reviews are stupid, lazy, and irresponsible. There is no larger meaning to this movie, except that it is representative of a deep vein of pathological sickness in the national psyche of the country that produced it.

This isn't the proper forum to go on a rant about the cowardice of the cultural diversity crowd when it comes to overseas women-hating or how slasher films are only tamer versions of The Devil's Experiment/Flowers of Flesh toned down for commercial considerations. I'll save that for another day, I guess.

The point of this series was to find the Sickest Fucking Film Ever. Congratulations, Guinea Pig: The Devil's Experiment, you win.

I have failed in one regard; I have not done a thorough search throughout the dregs of cinema to make an authoritative choice for the Sickest Fucking Film Ever. No doubt, there are some movies that I have overlooked. However, I have reached the point where I don't want to go further. The Devil's Experiment is as sick as I ever want to see.

The thought occurred to me that someone trying to sell copies of The Devil's Experiment could slap "The Sickest Fucking Film Ever! according to BThroughZ!" on a website or DVD cover and that someone might buy a copy because of it. The thought of contributing to that transaction doesn't really bother me; just like the Beatles shouldn't have been felt guilty that Charles Manson thought he was telling them to start chopping people up.

But I have a request for any entrepreneurs who might want to use my endorsement. Please add to the tagline of "Sickest Fucking Film Ever" the following: "...and if you enjoy this movie, please get professional help. Unless you are Japanese, in which case, please enjoy along with millions of your sick countrymen."

Sayonara you bastards.