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Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu
Number of Items: 1
Format: Animated, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
Audience Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 73 minutes
Studio: Wea Corp
Product Group: DVD
Release Date: 2004-07-27
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Entrails of the Virgin Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu Number of Items: 1 Format: Animated, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 73 minutes Studio: Wea Corp Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27 Buy from Amazon |
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From Description A group of people on a photo shoot in the woods take refuge in a dark house as a dense fog rolls in. When night falls, a mud-covered creature from the nearby swamp stalks them one by one brutally killing them and performing horrific sex-games with the women. ENTRAILS OF THE VIRGIN is the controversial sex-and-gore nightmare from director Gaira (Kazuo Komizu). Presented here for the first time with a brand new, digitally mastered anamorphic widescreen transfer from original vault materials, ENTRAILS OF THE VIRGIN is definitely not for the squeamish! Prepare to be shocked, offended, horrified and repulsed by every single frame of this unbelievable Japanese cult classic. Remember, you’ve been warned! SPECIAL FEATURES: |
 "Not a lot of Entrails"This bizarre film relates the story of two sleazy guys and three really stupid gals who run afoul of some sort of demonic swamp rapist creature. Unfortunately, even at only seventy minutes or so, it seems to take forever to really do anything. The majority of the film is filled with vast amounts of soft core porn. I am uncertain as to the directors intent with these sequences as they are not erotic and seem to do little other than pad out the running time. I suppose there is some message concerning a societies preoccupation with "things of the flesh" but I don't really know. Luckily, the demonic swamp rapist creature finally shows up to start raping and killing. The gore effects are marginal, one scene with a spear impalement is very poor, another with entrails being removed is a little better. None of the characters seem real, the two males are such jerks that only the most vapid of women would ever be around them. That said, the three women are so stupid that you end up with no character to identify with on any level. The film does not try to be scary it is essentially soft core porn in the beginning and then attempted horrific violence at the end. I ended up giving this film two stars based on its supposed historic value and an amazingly insightful interview with the director. After watching the interview, one can easily see why his characters behave so stupidly as he comes across as a complete moron. View at your own risk.  "Don't even bother"Very bad movie. Don't believe the editorial review. I got more scared watching my mom's home videos. Gratuitous odd Japanese softporn sex if you are into that thing but "you have been warned" you will be dissappointed even if you buy it just for that. "Movie Review"The Movie is a Japanese produced, Grade D, low budget piece of trash. Some nudity, and violence, but most of it was off camera. Don't waste your time.  "Sweet."The plot's simple, anything but unique, cliché, and what-not; (minor spoiler possibility) a photo crew ends up in a house in the woods (for what reason? I don't know, really). On the way there they hit some thing, which immediately disappeared again though. In any case, being stuck in the house, some monster (the thing) with a giant phallus comes and terrorizes them. Gorn? Hell yeah. Amusing? Moderately. I personally liked the first entry in the series, Guts Of A Beauty, better. However, that doesn't mean this one's bad. Or well, it's bad, but it's still fun, too. There's no real story, no development, some cliché characters, copious amounts of rape, a swamp thing with a giant phallus, and a necrophiliac girl. Altogether, that makes for some slightly above average 70+ minutes. The special effects are very poorly done though; if you have seen the cover art and thought, "Oh my, now that looks retarded", this is a shot from an actual scene in the flick (referring to the Japan Shock edition!). There's some more badly done scenes, although the scenes with the necrophiliac girl are excecuted generally nice and are highly amusing. In the end, I'd say recommended if you like gorn, but the first entry in the series, Guts Of A Beauty, 'd be a better choice. mos says: Scares? -20/10 Gore? 6/10 Size of that giant phallus? 10"/10 Fun factor? 6/10 Guts Of A Virgin? Well. "Horror fans beware..."The plot, what little there is of it: Three Japanese pornographers go out into the mountains to shoot photos. Due to the fog, they stop their van and decide to spend the night in an abandoned building, where they get drunk and sexually assault the photo shoot girls. Little do they know, there is a "swamp monster" lurking with similar sexual designs and murderous intentions as well. As a horror fan, I was disappointed. There are no scares, the direction is sloppy, and the gore is minimal with maybe two exceptions. In three cases when a violent attack occurs, the camera cuts away to a "metaphorical" shot representing the violence, for example, a hammer hitting a piece of meat. I found the whole exercise pretty tedious to sit through for a pretty half-assed payoff at the end. Specifically in the last gore scene, latex that's supposed to be human skin stretches and bends with bubble-gum elasticity. Very fake. Then you have the swamp monster, well, not really a monster, he's actually some Japanese guy caked in mud. When they finally show a good shot of him, he's got his hair spiked up in a muddy mohawk! Pretty laughable, and to call it a real horror film would be stretching the truth somewhat. If you take out the sex, you could probably edit this 72 minute feature down to a 15 minute short. However, I would even imagine most sex film fans would be disappointed with the digitally blurred genitalia that tames it down to softcore level. Nothing is ever explained, really. It's all a rather incoherent mishmash of sex-rape scenes with the horror aspects emerging in the last 20 minutes or so. But by that time it was too late to generate any real interest. The confusion is somewhat explained by watching the interview with director Komizu. His nonsensical ramblings while chainsmoking gave me the impression of a week-long crystal meth binge. At least he seems like he had fun filming the movie. I would only recommend this movie to diehard fans of Japanese sex films, or perhaps the heavily drugged. I generously gave it two stars, only because of the beautiful Japanese girls, and the two brief gore parts that actually worked, one involving the use of a severed arm (!) If you're looking for disturbing Japanese horror, try Organ, Evil Dead Trap, or something from the Guinea Pig series before resorting to Entrails of a Virgin! |