Well, if you have not watch some sick shit, go get Guinea Pig films series.
Guinea Pig series is a Japanese video series started in the 1980s, the first two can be consider as a mock up of snuff film, or as explain in the video, a 'remake' of actual snuff film.
In Guinea Pig 1 - The Devil's Experiment, there is no plot. It is explain in text at the beginning that the recording is an experiment on actual human, in this case a woman on how much pain she can take. Therefore in the next 40 odd minutes, we are fed with visuals of three guys slapping and kicking this women, pinched her with a some spanner, slammed her hand with a hammer, spin around on a chair, exposed to insanely loud music via headphone, pulled of one of her finger nails, splashed with hot oil, followed by maggots then some animal's internal organ and lastly poke a needle from the side of her face, into and out of her eye...
Detail of arm post oil burn and a sprinkle of maggots
Well, sick enough? The special effect is extremely good, most of the tortured skin or limbs looks realistic enough, although if trained and observant enough you will notice some fakeness in them. You will know it is fake when the guys are kicking the woman. They kick like sissy. If not for the poor performance of the victim, one can easily being fool to think all is real. For someone being tortured like this, I will expect more desperate screaming and begging.
Is this fake? or real?
So, if you have some digesting issue and need to vomit, watch this, it will help you a lot, but make sure you have a healthy heart to start with.
Guinea Pig 2 - Flower of Flesh and Blood does has a plot, and it is simple. Pervert stalk women, abduct them, drug them and dismembered them while they still alive but drugged. It is said to be based on a manga (the dismembered portion, basic plot of manga is totally ignore) which in turn inspired by a real snuff sent by a crazed fan to the manga artist, along with some photos and 19 pages long letter.
The pervert
After a more conventional stalking and abducting scene, for the rest of the video, a crazy guy with a samurai helmet, will first tell the audience what is he going to do, and makes parallel between the mutilation of the woman and the blossoming of a flower. He starts with cutting of the hands of the women, followed by the arms and legs. Next he gut and disemboweled the woman and finish off with a clean chop of the head. Video ends with he showing off his collection which consists of decorations made of previous victims body part and his reciting of a poem as voice over.
Look! No hands!
Well, which this can duped Charlie Sheen into believing its a true snuff film, there is at least a few points where you can deduce this is fake. First, the video shows the guy cut off the clothes of the women, the women is stripped until the undergarment but it made a jump cut to the women fully naked but covered by a piece of cloth.
What? It's fake?
Now why is this? If it is a sick enough video to show dismembering a living human body parts, why not it does not dare to show a full naked body? Hmm I did not or haven't watch any making of for this video, but I suspect the cloth plays a big part. It is a cover up. Most likely it employs the old trick where the women just show her head through a hole on the bed or chopping board and the rest of her real body may be sitting under the bed. The 'body' lying on the bed is a dummy. So, the cloth is needed to hide the giveaways.
There are also a few shots where you can see that the flesh does not really attached to the skin and bone, which is so uncharacteristic of real flesh and bones. Plus, when the skin or body is cut open, it bleeds too slow. Using a surgical knife like instrument, it will cut through the skin and flesh the moment it is stab and the blood should be gushing out asap. But in here it takes quite a few seconds.
But whole idea of dismembering when the victims is drug rather throw away a lot of sickness. If the victim is screaming and begging like hell, the impact of the violence will be greater. Thing's is, a conscious victim will have a lot of movement and struggling which make shooting dismembering the fake limbs realistically will be difficult and revealing.
Although the status of this second film is higher than the first, but the non-amateur like editing and the performance of the guy which resemble more to a mentally disturb medical examiner really does not convey the sense of brutality. It's good on the special effect, but many rooms to improve in manipulating the audiences' fear and feelings.
There area round 7 titles in the series, just done till #2. More to come folks.
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