Eiji (Sadao Abe) is an ingenious 17-year-old who has set out to develop
a painkiller that will not only kill pain but actually turn it into
pleasure. But since as a 17-year-old he has no access to subjects for
testing of his own like a regular scientist would, he decides to secretly
test his serum called Myson on 3 girls his mother Yuki (Masumi Nakao) is
testing a new contraceptive on - & since the three also share a flat,
it is relatively easy for Eiji to keep an eye on them ...
Soon enough, Eiji falls in love with one of them, Rika (Misa Aika), an
empathetic insomniac who has a weird relationship to her cactus and a
machine that can make her dream and melt her mind with others, including
her cactus.
Surprisingly enough, Myson doesn't seem to have any effect on Rika,
while her roommates soon go completely mad: her vain roommate (Mika
Kirihara) starts piercing herself everywhere, the more painful the better,
and soon she has become addicted to piercing herself in the most painful
ways. Meanwhile Rika's gluttonous roommate deepfries her hand and eats it,
then eats different parts of her body including her vagina, a nipple and
an eye. Before long, both of the girls are dead ...
When she hears about the death of two of her subjects, Yuki calls Rika
in for a check-up ... but ultimately Yuki ends up with her belly being cut
open.
But why ?
It turns out Rika was so empathetic that the pain of others made her
suffer ... but now that suffering has turned into pleasure, she has become
a maniac killer.
When Eiji realizes what he has done, he injects himself the rest of his
serum and asks Rika for forgiveness - which Rika gladly grants, not only
that, she asks him to make her a child, and after procreation cuts him up
...
Years later: Rika and her son Eiji jr (Seiya Hiramatsu) travel the
country with gallons of Myson which Rika uses to spray whole cities to
then go on a killing spree ...
A word up front: If you've got a weak stomach, don't even think about
watching this, most of the violence of this movie is presented in every
glorious gory detail - which quite simply might not be to everybody's
taste.
However, the violence in Splatter: Naked Blood is far from
gratuitous, it's an intrinsic part of the story that combines flesh horror
and weird philosophy in a way reminiscent of early David Cronenberg movies
- and is therefore, without being derivative, just as chilling.
Recommendation - but only if you have a strong stomach.
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