Niku Daruma

PSYCHO: THE SNUFF REELS is another sick, super-extreme Japanese gore film. This review will all be a spoiler - there is no story to the film. Also, there was no English audio or subtitles, but I don't think I missed much because of that... Two people are brought in to make a porn video. They do their thing for a while (of course, all the hardcore action is pixelated...) and then they take a break. When they come back, they tie up the girl and have some BDSM type of play, but the chick isn't really digging having dildos shoved in her ass. When they try to give her an enema, she flatly refuses. They take another break, and when she isn't looking, she's hit in the head with a baseball bat. When she wakes up, she's tied to the bed. Someone cuts her foot off and then her arm. They cut her tongue up with some sort of shears then cut a hole in her stomach and play with her intestines. The male porn actor then f!cks her in her gut wound. Then they smash her in the face with a meat cleaver. When that's done, one of the film crew hits the guy over the head and knocks him unconscious also. They cut his nuts off, and that's pretty much it.

This film won't really appeal to any normal person as entertainment. It is definitely sick and disgusting, and is the whole reason I sought this film out, so on that level I was not disappointed. The fact that there is no story at all makes it less enjoyable. I know it's supposed to come off as a snuff film, but it's obviously not real. The tongue scene is obviously fake as are the other gore scenes, but the special effects are decent and it is still VERY rough. Only recommended to fans of AUGUST UNDERGROUND or perhaps FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD or DEVIL'S EXPERIMENT from the GUINEA PIG series. 6/10

No plot to speak of, it might shock if more than a couple of yen were spared for special effects, but they weren't. Any porn before the bad special effects is rendered moot by the obligatory Japanese censorship, so it fails at porn & gore. Typical try-hard shock crap :( I'd have been disappointed if I'd paid for a copy of this!

i came across this film on the net by fluke and i was horrified by its content of vivid abuse violence and torture scenes. it was a relief to know it was not real after reading the comments. what dangerously sick animals of a person make something like this and for what purpose goes beyond belief. i was even more shocked to see people appraising the film in the comments section of this site. this is a extremely disturbing film indeed which could change your life forever. the people behind this should be bought to justice asap. today they shown a girl getting raped and butchered on screen tomorrow it could be a child. even its fake or not its very very deathly disturbing,nauseating indeed.

The first half of it is just porn, the second half of it is torture porn. I'm not a moralist, yet I'm not a fan of this sort of films either. There's no story, there's no acting, there's no cinematography. It's not even shocking, because the props are so fake, it's laughable. 'Tumbling Doll of Flesh' is a frequent guest in 'disturbing' movie lists on YouTube, but it's not even disturbing. It's just overhyped and boring.

Yeah, I do realise that some people would be offended by this film, but it's hard to pick a thing someone isn't offended by these days. For me the most difficult part was trying not to fall asleep watching this. If you want to get 'disturbed', there's plenty of films that are more graphic or psychologically harrowing, or both. Maybe 'Tumbling Doll...' is one of the earliest pseudo-snuff films, so it kinda deserves a credit for it, but it still doesn't make It good.

Gore can be a really important part of a horror movie. It is to a horror movie what a good seasoning is to a dish. That being said, when you over season something, it becomes overpowering and inedible. This is the exact case for Niku Daruma (Tumbling Doll of Flesh), a 90s video nasty in the long line of Japanese films that infamously (and woefully) identify themselves with the misogynistic sub-genre of literal torture pornography. The only other film I've watched in that same category (solely out of curiosity) was Girl Hell 1999. Both films have no plot, are shamelessly anti-women, horribly shot, and have no rhyme or reason for their abundant filth. What makes me even more angry is that these are scene as pornography; something that people are aroused by. I'd be mortified and angry to think that anyone could be aroused by kidnapped women being dismembered and sexually assaulted.

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