Repugnant Review: Camp (Kyanpu) (2014) – Ainosuke Shibata

Directed and Produced by Ainosuke Shibata

Starring Miyuki Yokoyama, Rei Ayana, and Peach Momomiya

\”Camp\” is a Japanese \”rape and revenge\” thriller (a la I Spit On Your Grave) directed by Ainosuke Shibata. The film is about two sisters who wind up at an abandoned camp-site after they crash their car. At the camp, they run into five men who happen to be escaped mental patients who have uncontrollable sexual fetishes. They all go by small nicknames that link them to their particular fetish. There is Pyro (pyrophiliac), a psycho who can\’t get it up so he rapes women with a grill lighter; Hypo (hypoxiphilia), a retard who gets off at depriving his victims of oxygen; Necro (necrophilia), who only has sex with corpses (duh); Copro (coprophilia), a very silly weirdo who loves to drink piss and eat shit; Lastly, we have Thanatos (thanatophilia), the more sympathetic character who is obsessed with pain and death. Our two victims are tortured mercilessly by these men in incredibly sadistic and depraved ways, and it isn\’t until one of the sisters escapes (with the help of Thanatos), and finds help in murdering these psychos from the help of the mysterious vigilante Misaki (played by porn-star Miyuki Yokoyama, who ironically has no nude/sex scenes).

The great Troma Entertainment released this film as a double feature with Hitch-Hike (another film directed by Ainosuke Shibata) called \”From Asia with Lust Vol. 1\”. The only gripe I had with this is that it was marketed as a Japanese \”pink\” film, aka, Japanese soft-core porno. I mean, if I was to think this was erotic in anyway, I think I would question my mental state, because I didn\’t find this erotic at all. Other than that, this works really well as a traditional American \”rape and revenge\” movie, very similar to (as I stated before) I Spit On Your Grave. The scenes of rape and sexual torture were genuinely disturbing and pretty damn disgusting. There were also some moments I giggled at, and it was all dialogue based. There was one line that made me laugh in particular, and it\’s when the shit eating deviant Copro says, \”I can\’t stop thinking about the younger ones stinky butt, It looks so good! Excuse me miss? Can I take a peek at your flower? No, No! It\’s ok! I just want to lick away that shit from your butthole!\”. It\’s fucked up, but the inner man-child at me thought it was a little funny.

I was surprised. It wasn\’t that bad, at all. The torture and rape was brutal and hard to watch at times, and the ending revenge towards the sickos was pretty fun to watch. There were a couple digital effects in there that looked way out of place, but it\’s a low-budget feature that nailed everything else. Decent acting, fun violence, beautiful women, and fucked up villains. If those aren\’t the ingredients to a fucked up Japanese sexploitation flick, then I don\’t know what. If you want to check this film out I\’ll link the Troma store to this flick down below. I\’m sure it\’s on youtube for free somewhere, but you\’d be a great fucking person by buying it and supporting independent art. I\’ll get around to the other film on the Dvd, Hitch-Hike, eventually, but I got a lot of great stuff to watch in my endless stack of movies. Let me know what you think, and send me some suggestions!

REPUGNANT REVIEW: GUINEA PIG 6 – MERMAID IN A MANHOLE (Hideshi Hino)

Yes, you read correctly. MERMAID IN A MANHOLE is part 6 in the GUINEA PIG film series, and you\’re probably wondering why I\’m going in this order. Thanks to oddly timed productions on other sequels, MERMAID was released fourth in line. Part five, and four then came out afterwards, in that order. I\’m not even going to question why this happened, considering these films are incredibly weird to begin with. This part was very cool though, much less violent than the previous three, but it\’s definitely the most disgusting out of them. An artist, who is roaming around the sewer late at night, and finds a mermaid stranded and sick. He then takes the mermaid home, because he remembers her as a child, seeing the mermaid at a local river. Supposedly he\’s in the process of coping with the loss of his wife, and I guess painting a sick mermaid is going to make that better. Can this film get any weirder? Oh boy, it fucking does.

For a sea creature to be stranded in the sewers for as long as she had, the mermaid obviously got a sever infection. Throughout the movie, she begins developing wounds and boils all over her body. The makeup was great, and the pulsating, oozing pus filled sacks on her body were delightfully disgusting. What I really liked is that all the wounds had different color pus. Yellow, green, purple, red, blue… this is when the painting comes into play. The mermaid asks the artist to paint her portrait, but the paint would be her blood and pus. Weary neighbors begin to question the nasty stink coming from his apartment, but pass it off as rotten fish. Well, they\’re not technically wrong, considering the status of the mermaids health. She\’s covered in boils and oozing pus and blood from every direction. The artist has finally had enough he butchers the Mermaid, leaving body parts and gore all over his apartment. Blood begins to leak into the apartment below, and the neighbors call the cops. The artist is arrested and… well, I\’d go into more, but the movie has such a great twist ending. So I\’ll leave it there.

I honestly loved this movie. The whole feel of it was nice. It was dark, but colorful, and it was just overall visually pleasing. The special effects may have been more on the gross side, but they looked great. I haven\’t been grossed out by pus in awhile, not since DEAD ALIVE at least. It was a very well made movie, and I know I won\’t spoil it, but the ending was fucking awesome. WHAT A TWIST. I highly recommend this, and for the reasons I stated above. It\’s just a fun movie, and if you want to check it out I\’ll post the film below. Let me know what you think, and enjoy!

– Jake

FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD, CHARLIE SHEEN, AND THE FEDS

I\’ve probably already mentioned this story a bunch of times now, so I\’m finally writing a little post about it, to explain to those \”What the fuck does Charlie Sheen have to do with this fucking movie?\” It\’s pretty damn hilarious to be honest. Do you have one of those friends who\’s kind of into horror movies, and asks \”Hey, got any good horror movies?\” I think this is how it happened, because this is something I would do. When a friend, who you know is a newbie to extreme horror films, asks if he can borrow any movies, you give him the most disgusting shit you can find. I think that\’s what happened to Charlie. He had a friend, who lent him a \”horror movie\”, and he got horribly freaked out by it. I mean, some movies have bugged me before, but never enough to report it to the FBI. I always thought of Charlie Sheen as this crazy drug addict who liked getting involved in fucked up shit, and Flowers of Flesh and Blood freaks him out?! Holy shit. Well, screw my theory, let\’s get into the facts of this ridiculous story.

So one day in 1991, film critic Chris Gore gave Charlie Sheen a copy of Flowers of Flesh and Blood, which Charlie watched later on and freaked out. He though he had watched a real woman get dismembered by a real samurai. I mean, with all the shit he was stuffing up his nose back in the day, it kind of makes sense. What makes this even better, is that he contacts the FBI, who contact Japanese authorities. GUINEA PIG 2 even had a making of the first Guinea Pig, to prove that the special effects were all made, and not real people getting butchered. Here\’s a quote from the San Francisco Chronicle about the issue:

\”The FBI confiscated Sheen’s tape and proceeded to investigate all involved, including Charles Balun, an early distributor of the film. Balun fiercely asserted that the film was a hoax and was merely a series of startling special effects. Propitiously, the Japanese took this time to release ”Guinea Pig Two: The Making of Guinea Pig One,” revealing the technical sleight of hand in all its bone-cracking glory. After viewing this film, the FBI backed off and dropped the investigation.\”

The FBI watched the movie themselves and even said \”Fuck this, it\’s obviously fake\”, and turned it off. I mean the special effects are great and all, but I\’ve seen other films with really gruesome realistic effects in them. I don\’t even know what Charlie Sheen was thinking at the time. For someone who drinks Tiger Blood and bangs hookers by the dozen, he really can\’t handle his horror films all too well. All joking a side, I can totally understand if someone can\’t handle such films as this, because I have friends who have limits with certain subject matter… but don\’t be a Charlie Sheen.

REPUGNANT REVIEW: GUINEA PIG 2 – FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD (Hideshi Hino)

What more can I say, that already hasn\’t been said before. The infamous second installment in the Guinea Pig films, Flower of Flesh and Blood, is one of the most violent movies I\’ve ever seen. The violence and gore were just out of control this time around, and the special effects just blew my mind. Absolutely gruesome. This is much much better than the first one, and this one also kind of had a story, which was nice for a change. Flower of Flesh and Blood is written, directed, and acted out by Hideshi Hono, the horror manga artist I previously discussed yesterday. Hideshi plays a samurai, who stalks, drugs, and butchers women in incredibly nasty ways. I honestly enjoyed this a lot, so let\’s get into some of the reasons why I find this film to be worthy of your precious time.

First and foremost, since we are talking about Guinea Pig, the special effects are incredible. I mean, for those who have seen super gory splatter films, these will definitely look fake, but they are so well done. There is actually one effect that made me cringe, and it\’s when the Samurai uses a chisel and hammer to cut through the woman\’s shoulder. The sound effects were disgusting, and really added to the gore. This would be one hell of a movie to show people who are into special effects and make up. If Charlie Sheen thought this was genuine, then they did a great fucking job. I\’ll actually be posting an article next about the whole Charlie Sheen mess, but let\’s carry on.

I liked the fact that this movie kind of had a story. A Samurai who tortures and dismembers women, DONE. This movie definitely has more to it, and I mean besides the gore and violence, Flower of Flesh and Blood had a silly but memorable character, I thought it was filmed and edited very well, the sets were nice, and this is overall a decent flick. I would absolutely throw this on for my buddies, kick back, and chill. The only thing that sucked for me was that i couldn\’t find a version of this movie with any subtitles, so the dialogue was completely lost in translation. I think I got what was going on though. This one just really got me excited for what\’s to come with \”HE NEVER DIES\” and \”MERMAID IN A MANHOLE\” (another film written and directed by Hideshi Hino).

For those interested in checking out GUINEA PIG 2 – FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD, I\’ll post the video link blow, since I found it on Youtube. Let me know what you think, and get ready for more Guinea Pig related shit all week at THE REPUGNANT PLAYHOUSE! ENJOY!

-Jake