Guinea Pig 1 - Devils Experiment (1985)

My rating - 5/10

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The first film in the infamous Japanese Guinea Pig series involves a woman being put through various torture methods until she eventually dies, and that's all there is to the plot of this one.

She is tied to a chair and slapped a hundred times, she's kicked over and over, she has various parts of her body pinched and pulled with pliers, boiling oil is poured over her arms, she's spun around on the chair over and over then forced fed alcohol, then spun round again until she vomits. Raw meat and maggots are thrown over her and she's subjected to sound torture for a few hours. It all ends with her suffering some nasty eye abuse.

These days this one has lost most of it's impact due to the clear picture quality of DVD or Blu-Ray. When most old school horror fans like me encounted this one it was on a 4th or 5th gen VHS tape copy. The picture quality was pretty poor and that made this one look far more realistic. It was actually quite shocking at the time as most of us hadn't seen anything like this before.

Some of the effects are decent, especially the eye abuse scene which is still pretty wince inducing, but overall it's not that great if you're seeing it on DVD rather than an old VHS. Not bad for it's time but it's been supassed by many others like it these days.

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