Shôjo jigoku ichi kyû kyû kyû

People treat this movie as some profound masterpiece but that's far from my interpretation. This is a movie that has a few ideas put into it that are there to be weird and unusual. Low budget, how does one make something interesting? Put a weird girl and a doll into it. I feel as though that was the direction the movie was going for with everything it did, it doesn't have anything interesting to say and the dialogue and acting is laughable. This can be treated as a comedy, and I'd rather it be treated that than some "underground masterpiece". Weird to be weird, movie to be movie, nothing more.

Over the course of a couple of years, I've been moseying through a top 50 list of most disturbing movies. I was already exactly halfway through so I chose to watch this one because it's short. And thank god it was. As of today, this is honest to god one of my least favorite films I have ever had the displeasure of watching. I knew it was going to be an unpleasant watch but I was at least expecting some good gore effects. No. None to be had. This is essentially a very filthy (in both senses of the word) fetish film with horrible production values, abysm acting, a ham fisted "twist", and needless debauchery of the most unappetizing, unerotic kind. Thinking about this film makes me angry. One big pile of crap.

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Girl Hell isn't that known by the lovers of Japanese horror but it do is a classic by the Japanese splatter gore lovers. Up to this writing it never had a proper release outside Japan so it is only available in Japanese language and even then it's hard to find. Still, some are disappointed by this flick because the nudity scene's are blurred, a typical Japanese phenomena.

But for the lovers of ultra extreme flicks Girl Hell is available on DVD-R together with another ultra rare flick, Women's Flesh: My Red Guts. The difference between the two is that Girl Hell is a real flick with actors and WFMRG looks like a snuff flick. There's only one girl in it, unknown.

Girl Hell was for me not that extreme as being said. It's more a kind of exploitation flick were we follow one girl having a bad day. For some it might be a strange flick because we do see milk coming out of a breast while feeding a doll! Further on we do see a wife being raped by her husband but not on a normal way, she's strapped like a mummy. It do becomes weirder and weirder but gore is left out. The red stuff do flows but most of the ugly parts are done off-screen. naturally being only available in Japanese language it may be hard to watch for some but you will get the picture while watching it. I thought it would be ultra gory but be honest, it never really becomes that it only has a few rare situations.

Gore 2/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Nudity 0/5

But it's the second flick on the famous disc that do delivers the extremities. sadly it's of bad quality but people who can catch it will be glad to have a copy of this notorious flick. What we do see here is just one girl going berserk on her own body. Being influenced by an experimental drug she first finds out that penetrating her body do has his satisfaction. The only thing she uses herefor is some kind of metal spoon look-a like. She enters it in her mouth soon to be placed in her vagina until blood runs out. Once she's bleeding the drug do what it got to do and she starts to enjoy by cutting her body with a fork to be replaced later by a knife. She discovers that pain do gives thrills. the pain do becomes excessive until mutilation of the body becomes extreme.

Clearly not for everybody and comes into the regions of the almost lost an extreme rare to find Chinoumi by which none is known, not the actors or the director, another bizarre entry in Japanese underground splatter flicks. But it even can become more extreme with another hard to get example, the flicks by the Daikichi's Genki-Genki production house.

Japan, a strange country with the most extreme flicks.

Gore 5/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 4/5µ Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

Misaki has reached her breaking point, coping with her father using her bed ridden & horribly disfigured sister as a sex toy and also by being terrorized by two different secret admirers. Yamanouchi delivers a bleak & mean spirited gem.

This review is more for fans of extreme horror. Not for myself as I really don't like these kind of movies. But I can appreciate the filmmaking.

This is directed by Daisuke Yamanouchi who is known for horror and very disturbing movies. Red Room is one of his best known and I did like that one.

The story is solid. Centers around a girl that is trying to make the best of people & things around her. Unfortunately the people around her are awful. Her mother abandoned the family. Her father rapes her sister regularly & treats herself poorly. A disturbed homeless woman who treats a broken doll like her child. Two young guys that enjoy raping women. And the sister that gets raped has serious injuries & heavily bandaged. The story only begins from there which is a very disturbing start.

I was impressed that while there are shocking things in this film, I did not think anything was played only for the shock value. A little bit of nudity in several scenes though again was only as it was important to the scene or to say something.

Personally I am not a fan of horror in general. Especially disturbing films like this one. But I will say it was very well made and can appreciate that.