Cineman Steve's video: 9 Horror Films That Make you Feel Gross Part 2B: FLOWERS OF FLESH BLOOD AND THE BUNNY GAME

@CinemanSteve FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD This is the second installment of the Guinea Pig series, and while "The Devil's Experiment" probably has a better place on this list, I wanted to include this one for personal reasons. This film gained a little extra popularity in the US when Charlie Sheen mistook it for a snuff film, and launched an FBI investigation. After the first couple minutes, the film takes place entirely in a dark dungeon run by this sadistic samarai who injects his female abductee with a serum that turns pain into pleasure, so she can enjoy her last moments strapped to a table being methodically torn to pieces. Like all the Guinea Pigs, there is no hero, no backstory or story arch, there is only a celebration of cinematic brutality. The gore is as anatomically correct and meticulously crafted by the special effects team, who you can see having a field day in the making-of video. The use of the color wheel and music number at the end makes the film feel like some macabre black box performance piece. The reason I just had to give Flowers of Flesh and Blood mention, is because back when I first saw this, oh maybe eleven years ago, within 10 minutes, right after the chicken gets his head cut off, she ran out of the house crying and called her mom to pick her up. At the time, I laughed at her, but looking back… it's still pretty funny. When I asked later what upset her, she explained the overall atmosphere of the film with such lo-fi production was just too much to bare. Simply put, it made her feel gross. THE BUNNY GAME (hipydy hop hop look at that thumper go!) Adam Rehmeier begins his film with Bunny, a young prostitute drug addict who has already been dehumanized to such limits, her whole existence is boiled down to a cycle of dirty trucker sex, snort some yay, dirty trucker sex, snort some yay. She has come to accept her mechanically debauched life, and as viewers , acceptance is our only option. Like her we realize the potential threat of each new customer, but the fear has already has already passed. We are fully immersed into Bunny's world by the time Hog picks her up. She is then subject to Hog's physical and mental torment, for the rest of the film. Like Bunny, we are completely unaware of Hog's intentions, why he is the way he is, and if there's any hope to escape. Remeier wanted us to experience the anguish and confusion of being an abductee, and by keeping the POV tightly secured on Bunny, I think he achieves that. The film is extremely difficult to watch, though there's a charm to the cinematography. Overall, I have trouble defending it. The actors in this film aren't really actors, and everything done to portrayed in the film, the beatings, the humiliation, the branding… that's right branding… it was all real. Now, obviously the performers were all consenting adults, but as I stated in my Serbian Film review, I see the simulation as being the art. For me, a line is crossed when actors are physically harmed to such a degree. That's not to discredit it as art, or take away the effort of the filmmakers, but I hope to speak for a grander audience when I say, watching real people being actually treated with such cruelty is fetishistic, and ain't no fetish o' mine.