Two women (Caitlyn Dailey, Ashley Lynn Caputo) are gassed in their own
car, dragged to a basement, drugged with neuro blockers that paralyze them
but let them see and feel everything that's happening to them. Four masked
men (Eight the Chosen One, Scott Gabbey, Rogan Russell Marshall, David
Hood) gather around them with VHS and Super 8 cameras - but what's much
worse, they are also armed with knives and saws and the like, and they
intend to use them on the girls, and before you know it, one (Caitlyn
Dailey) they take apart pretty much limb by limb, intestine by intestine, before
letting her bleed to death. The other, they skin alive before beating
their head in ... Now there are no two ways about it, American
Guinea Pig, an homage to the Japanese Guinea
Pig series, especially reminiscent of the realist violence of
the early episodes, is NOT a film for everyone. Matter of fact, only
hard-boiled gorehounds will get a kick out of the rather realistically
staged in-your-face mutilations the film is made up from, everyone else
will be revolted, and with some justification ... and this is exactly the
intended effect of American Guinea Pig, it tries its best to come
across as a nihilistic snuff movie, and with its very raw execution (it's
actually shot on VHS and Super 8) and its very gross yet realistic special
effects only heighten that effect while the nightmarish soundscapes give
one a feel of unease. Now true, this is only for a select audience, for
people who want to watch torture porn at its rawest - but they will
probably enjoy it very much ...
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