American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore (2015)

(out of 5)

 

 

American Guinea Pig:  Bouquet of Guts and Gore
directed by:  Stephen Biro
starring:  Ashley Lynn Caputo, Caitlyn Dailey, Eight The Chosen One, Scott Gabbey, David Hood, Jim Van Beeber, Rogan Russell, Curse Mackey, Lucio Giovannelli, Lilly Dickenson
format:  NTSC:  Region 1 - personal collection


The Movie:  A woman and her daughter brutalized beyond belief after being drugged with LSD and some sort of paralyzing injection.   If you have seen any of the Japanese Guinea Pigs most especially The Devil's Experiment you will know what you are in store for.  I have read some reviews saying this movie is a remake etc. of those.  No it's not.  Influenced, inspired, yes.  But if anything it's just a continuation of those sick little shorts.  I myself have grown tired of "torture porn" and I mean real "torture porn" not like the Saw franchise which to me is just a gory horror film that happens to have some brutal torture kills in it.  But this film and others like it are just straight torture and a lot of it.  I grew bored of these years ago but when something like this comes out I just can't ignore it.  Most especially in an independent community I just love to support.

The Acting:  Nothing but real here.  The women were scared the men were domineering, all of them really did the trick for this film.  I really felt like I was watching these guys torture and murder this mother and daughter.  A bit of arguing between the big goat skull guy and the director with the Bible mask.  "Always on the left, never on the right!"

The Shots:  The movie looked very old school and at one point you see a film being edited using what appeared to be a half broken piece of film editing equipment.  The old rolling cameras they used continued to run out of film and this was very cool.  The movie looked all patched together like one would expect from an underground snuff film.  Loved this.  So authentic looking, so real.

The Gore:  There really is no way around it Marcus Koch did a spectacular job with the fx here.  Constant fx with the torture and dismemberment plus all the Guts and Gore that followed.  The famous picture that I first saw of the woman's face sawed in half was horrifying to watch.  I definitely have lost most of my urge to watch these kinds of movies but wow did Stephen Biro come through with a good one. 

The Script:  Some will say there is no script it's just torture.  Hmmm.  True but untrue.  It is a complete torture film but I'd consider it a well scripted torture film.  I have seen more than my fair share of these movies and the scripts are almost never this good.  The dialogue between the men, the overall story of why these men were doing what they were doing.  There's a bit more to this than just lay down and torture two women.  The end, well see it for yourself...

The Rating:  Yeah I'm going to have to go with 5 out of 5 bloody hand prints on this one.  Just too cool to not.  I wasn't sure what to expect and man was I impressed.