Guts of a Virgin (aka Entrails of a Virgin
aka Shojo No Harawata) 1988 Japan Director: Kazuo Komizu (Gaira) Cast: Saeko Kizuki, Naomi Nakamura,
Nayako Kiboshi.
The basic thrust (and there is plenty
of thrusting) of the movie is this: we see a group of models and
photographers on a photo shoot. This is inter cut with soft
core sex scenes, the way I see it, these are sex fantasies of the all
male photographers who are obviously getting turned on by their models
and their poses (definitely nice work if you can get it).
When the job is done, it's time to head home, but they get lost in a
fog that appears. Meanwhile a strange figure emerges from the
earth and watches them. Our protagonists find a building which,
anyone with half a brain would give a wide berth, they decide to stay
in for the night. Big mistake! The aforementioned
strange figure from the earth turns up and proceeds to kill all the
guys and rape and kill all the women bar one who he impregnates.
The final shot shows her contemplating what her offspring will turn out
like. With a title like
Guts of a Virgin you really can't expect anything less than lashings
and lashings of sex and violence thrust into your face at regular
intervals. Looking like an Evil Dead (1982) rip off colliding with a
soft-core porno film, this should be 70 odd minutes of wet dream
material for gore hounds and cinematic sex maniacs alike.
However this film finally proves that there is such a thing as too much
of a good thing. This movie has not observed the maxim of
exploitation movies. What is this crime that has been
committed? What unwritten rule has been
violated? That law is Never Bore The Audience!
Yes, somewhat surprising, the incessant intercourse and graphic gore
lead to stiffening that the makers probably didn't intend. I'm
not going to catalogue all the carnage and carnality that creeps off
the screen, coz that would make for a boring review.
Needless to say, being Japanese, you have the bizarre sight of blurred
out genitalia but scenes of a woman flicking her bean furiously with a
dismembered arm or another woman being forced to piss her pants, in
close up, no less. Definitely a film for the jaded gore lovers
looking for a new splatter-fix and for cinephiles looking for something
more extreme.
This movie is part of a trilogy of movies made around the same time
(1986-87) by the same director who signs his films Gaira but is
actually known as Kazuo Komizu. The other two in the series are
Guts of A Beauty (aka Entrails of a Beautiful Woman aka Bijo No
Harawata 1986) and Female Inquisitor (aka Goumon Kifujin
198?). There are known as splatter-eros movies, which seem
to sum up perfectly the content of them.
