I am a curious type and have been trying to seek out ever-more extreme films since I can remember. Today I have seen the 1st installment of the Guinea Pig series. It was not what I expected. The most worrying thing is there is no storyline, therefore why watch it? This is what I asked myself during the film, not because it was boring, but because unless you get some sort of sick pleasure from watching 3 men torture (albeit fake) a woman for 45 minutes then why bother? There is only a few lines said in the whole movie. Just one torture scene after another.
I have to reiterate, it is not disturbing because it looks or seems real (because it doesn't), in fact it's not even disturbing, it's just that there is no reason to watch it unless you want to see a woman get tortured for 45 minutes. In that sense I believe this film is 'bad'. There are few people I will tell I have this in my collection, I wouldn't want to be branded some kind of sick woman-hater. In fact I might get rid of it, I would become quite worried if I ever felt the need to see it again. Watch it once as a curiosity if you must but pray you never have the desire to see it twice.
I have to reiterate, it is not disturbing because it looks or seems real (because it doesn't), in fact it's not even disturbing, it's just that there is no reason to watch it unless you want to see a woman get tortured for 45 minutes. In that sense I believe this film is 'bad'. There are few people I will tell I have this in my collection, I wouldn't want to be branded some kind of sick woman-hater. In fact I might get rid of it, I would become quite worried if I ever felt the need to see it again. Watch it once as a curiosity if you must but pray you never have the desire to see it twice.