Naked Blood (1996) User Reviews

Not the film I was expecting; an intelligent slice of J-horror

[DVD_Connoisseur · 7/10 · 17 February 2007]

There are some films I've put off viewing for a long time as I've been informed they contain material that is simply too strong, too offensive to be tolerated. One of these films is "Naked Blood". Imagine my surprise, then, when I finally sat down to watch the recent US release of this cult movie last night and found the film to be both intelligent and well-made. Yes, it contains some graphic scenes but they need to be put in context with what else is contained within the horror genre. While some of the scenes in "Naked Blood" are, I believe, unique, there's nothing here that will corrupt the viewer or overwhelm him / her with its content. In terms of violence, the bloodshed in "Naked Blood" is no worse than many other underground horror films.

What "Naked Blood" delivers is a thoughtful, almost fly-on-the-wall, unfolding of events as a young doctor's son, Sadao Abe, creates an antidote to pain. When he tampers with his mother's experiment by including his special pain-relieving fluid with her new contraceptive, things go very wrong, very fast.

I knew details of most of the horrific scenes before I watched "Naked Blood" but the movie did contain a few surprises. The effects work is excellent but the film succeeds because of its atmosphere and performances rather than elements of "gross out" horror.

Even with its bizarre ending, I enjoyed "Naked Blood" and would recommend it to genre fans.

7 out of 10.

Surreal and fascinating gorefest

[Indyrod · 7/10 · 2 February 2005]

This is a very interesting movie and a little hard to review. It starts out as a teen scientist develops a brain altering drug that is supposed to cure pain. His Mother is a research scientist conducting a research project with three women concerning birth control. Her Son slips some of his drug into his Mother's experiment to test it out, and then watches especially one of the patients to see what happens. This evolves rather slowly at first as we watch subtle changes in the three women. One is obsessed with food, another with her appearance, and the one he follows around is the strange one. She never sleeps and spends much of time with a virtual machine like thing connected to a cactus. Yes, a cactus. What happens soon, is the drug starts doing its thing and two of the women start exhibiting bizarre behavior, but not the cactus lady. The food lady becomes obsessed with her own body, and basically starts eating her own body parts. Oh yea, this is WAY over the top and the gore just keeps a coming once it starts. The second lady becomes obsessed with pain, and begins sticking all types of piercings into her body. It seems the drug does do away with pain, but causes an addiction where as the lady has a compulsion for more and more self-inflicted pain. The cactus lady is not showing much of any changes, but her world is pretty bizarre regardless of the drug. This becomes pretty confusing as dream sequences pop out of nowhere and seem to put a different spin on everything that has been going on. Did the other two women die from the drug, or did the cactus lady actually kill them? To be honest, I don't have a clue, and that would be a spoiler anyway if I did. Disturbing, yes, very very disturbing. Confusing? Not at first, but the dream sequences bring in a new element that is a little difficult to figure out. This has some spectacular gore, mainly with the food lady that eats herself. I've never seen anything like that in my life, and that alone puts this movie in a class by itself. This movie also has a Gozu (ending) type scene that is absolutely incredible. Disturbing, surreal, ultra-gory, those are all good descriptions of this fascinating movie. This one is for hardcore gorehounds.

Fantastic FX!

[Shaza123 · 7/10 · 23 May 2013]

A teenage kid sabotages his mums experiment, to create this ultimate painkiller drug. The drug transforms any feeling of pain that one might have, to pleasure! Only this one is real extreme. The more pain you should be feeling, the more pleasurable it is! This drug is tested on three subjects. A chick who loves food, a chick who loves herself, and a chick who loves a cactus. As these women go about their lives, our teenage scientist spies on them and discovers the results. And so do the girls. Feeling how awesome pain should be, they are tempted to go to extremes to feel the ultimate pleasurable experience....with cringe worthy results!

So, the good!; The gore effects are excellent! I will praise this movie for these scenes. No cgi here, the prosthetic's look fantastic, especially that eye scene! The story. I actually thought it was an interesting plot. Lots of potential. The surreal elements. This movie looks nightmarish at times. It pulls this off very well.

The bad; The pacing was terrible. This movie switches from being mindblowingly cool, to mindblowingly boring! It's so slow in parts it damn near put me to sleep! The acting. Not gonna lie, don't expect Oscar performances here. It also gets a bit confusing? Being surreal works for the film, but it gets a bit too hard to follow, at least for me. I was mainly waiting for the scene were the chick eats herself... oh wow, I'm messed up!

So, we have a mixed basket here. Some very extreme/disturbing gore scenes, but it's also a bit boring and hard to follow. I'll give it a 7/10. Those effects were damn cool!

Different

[ogami-itto · 9 August 2003]

I watched this film thinking it would be another gore fest like the Guinea Pig series and in some ways it is. Yes, there are disturbing sequences of mutilation, including the much talked about nipple slicing scene. But, there is an intelligence to this movie that lifts it out of the run-of-the-mill splatter territory. The plot involves a teenage boy genius who has invented a mystery potion he names My Son. His mother is a scientist performing contraceptive experiments on three different women, he spikes a harmless contraceptive drug with My Son and films the results, along the way falling in love with one of the subjects. This is an interesting and intelligent movie, while some of the more out-there sequences will put off many it is a must see for people looking for something different.

Strange and strongly visual

[stormruston · 7/10 · 29 October 2007]

This movie has a strange softness to it between scenes of intense violence. It is sur-real and over the top.

It is a dream-like movie.

Hisayasu Sato added a real story to this one, well a start and a end of a story, just not a beginning and a finish..but who cares?

Do people watch these for the story or the shock value? Shock value here is about 90%.The Story is interesting but has holes, at 78 minutes that is not surprising. The effects are amazing. This is a movie for gore fans and those that like "weird but inoffensive." Not really worth looking for unless you are a collector.. but if you find it do watch it.

One strange flaw was the over the top sound effects, I have never heard a nipple "crunch" until this movie.

An audacious, clinical work

[fertilecelluloid · 7/10 · 24 April 2005]

Hisayasu Sato's NAKED BLOOD is one of his most technically polished exercises in cinematic therapy; it states its premise clearly and uses that premise to present provocative imagery.

Sex and control are favoured themes of Sato, but sex is not the focus here; controlling how our minds process stimulation (good and bad) is.

The nerdish son of a a doctor -- she is testing a new contraceptive drug on three female patients -- mixes his own home-made drug, "My Son", with his mother's. His invention allows the test subjects to experience pleasure when they should be feeling pain.

A woman saws off her vaginal lips and eats them; she then gouges her eye out with a fork and eats it; she also removes her nipple and eats that, too. The special prosthetic effects are effective, but the over-the-top sound effects render them cheesy (unfortunately).

There are other displays of grotesque gore including pens, hooks and needles pushed through flesh, but this is not a horror film in the classic sense; it is quite slow moving and almost academic in its detail.

Sato's direction is concise and clear. His focus on TV monitors, computer imagery, Super 8 and degraded video ties this feature to the obsessions of his very considerable oeuvre.

The film's most obvious inspiration is Cronenberg's VIDEODROME. From the headset through which one can experience the dreams and nightmares of another to the wholesale corruption of flesh, Sato was clearly taken with the themes of the Canadian filmer's original but flawed achievement.

An audacious, clinical work.

The second film I have watched this month that features a woman having her hand accidentally covered in batter and then cooked in boiling oil*.

[BA_Harrison · 7/10 · 24 June 2008]

If Takashi Miike, director of extreme horrors Audition and Ichi the Killer, were to collaborate with Canadian body-shock auteur David Cronenberg, the result might look something like Hisayasu Sato's Naked Blood, a downright weird film with some very nasty scenes of explicit gore.

Sadao Abe plays Eiji, a geeky 17 year old student genius who believes that he has discovered the answer to eternal happiness: his drug Myson, which triggers a massive increase in endorphin production when pain is experienced. In order to see if Myson works, he injects it into a trial contraceptive that his mother, a scientist, is about to test on three pretty volunteers.

Whilst Eiji waits for Myson to take effect, he follows the girls around with a video camera, recording them as part of his experiment. One of the girls, Rika Mikami, spots him trailing her and confronts him. Eiji explains that he is the son of the scientist who has been treating her; this seems like a good enough reason to Rika for the lad's strange behaviour, and the two become friends.

Then the film goes totally freaky, and not much else makes sense (unless you happen to be an advanced film student studying the history and psychology of Japanese Horror Cinema—which I'm not!).

Rika reveals to Eiji that she is an insomniac who communicates with a cactus via a pair of headsets that can put you into a waking dream state; the other two girls begin to mutilate themselves in order to experience pleasure; we learn that Eiji's father believed he had found the answer to eternal life, and disappeared one day by walking into the sea; and Eiji discovers that Rika isn't quite the angel that she at first seemed to be.

Sato directs his film at a very leisurely pace, and and those looking for a non-stop splatter-fest will no doubt be disappointed by a film that shares much more in common with avant-garde and transgressive cinema than out-and-out gore flicks.

Don't switch off if you are a gore-hound, however: after a fair amount of chit chat and general weirdness, those seeking the juicy stuff will have their patience rewarded by some bloody realistic and truly nauseating effects, including really icky body-modification and scenes of self-cannibalisation. The make-up here is very realistic and unsettling; try not to wince as one girl repeatedly pushes a spike through her forearm, and the other hungry lass cuts off her 'beef curtains' for starters (without any horse-radish sauce), gouges out her eyeball for her main course, and removes her nipple with a knife for afters.

There then follows some more strange stuff featuring Eiji's mother, who has her stomach opened up like a kit-bag by Rika, the return of Eiji's father (who crawls headfirst into Eiji's mother's gaping abdominal wound, closing it up neatly behind him!), some cyber-sex, more blood-letting, and a suitably bizarre ending which see Rika riding a motorbike towards the horizon, spraying a liquid (presumably Myson) into the air as she goes.

A hard film to rate, since I didn't really understand what I was watching a lot of the time. However, given that it was never boring, and the impressive gore was well worth the wait, I think a 7/10 seems fair.

*The other film to feature deep-fat-fried fingers was the excellent splatter epic The Machine Girl.

Depraved Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong

[dbborroughs · 5/10 · 3 August 2004]

A teen scientist spikes the medicine his mother is testing on young woman and the result is gruesome death, for the drug turns pain into the highest pleasure and it doesn't take a clever mind what happens next.

This is a slow movie that takes a while to get going. The drug takes a while to react, and the once it does the women infected by it self-mutilate horribly. Even though the effects are not the best at times this is a profoundly disturbing film with several images that will haunt you long after the film.

Despite the gore, there appears to be a point about medicine and research and pain and pleasure, but the slowness and the grossness over whelm the film. In a twisted way I'm glad I saw it, but I don't need to see it again.

5 out of 10 ---- but if you can't stand blood stay miles away from this film.

Fantastic Japanese splatter film!

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 10/10 · 26 May 2003]

Eiji,a young scientist invents serum called Myson which transforms the pain into pleasure.His mother is conducting medical experiment on three young women.Eiji decides to mix his serum with the experimental product that his mother is working on.Soon the girls start to hurt and mutilate themselves with a strange pleasure at doing it.The three main female actresses are truly interesting characters-one is obsessed with eating and her obsession later results in incredibly graphic and shocking self-cannibalism scene,another is obsessed with her image.The third,Rika Mikami suffers from extreme form of insomnia-a condition brought by the trauma of her first period."Naked Blood" is a slow-moving film filled with moments of totally extreme gore.The scene where one of the girls slowly eats her own nipple and eye has to be seen to be believed!Still the film is pretty difficult to understand,so fans of mindless Hollywood's horror should avoid it.A must-see for fans of Japanese extreme cinema.10 out of 10!

Naked Blood is excellent B-movie material, but....

[KentaroK · 7/10 · 21 March 2010]

Naked Blood is one of those films that makes you wonder just what Japanese (an Asian) cinema film-makers are drinking. Perhaps the same thing that those folks at Id in Texas were drinking (you know, when they made Doom and Quake).

Anyhow, geo-political pre-judice asside (and I am totally kidding about it, okay?), this movie is excellent as a B-movie. It is engrossing and continues to take unexpected turns.

Unfortunately, some parts of it are not explained very well, if at all, and it could be accused of being totally pointless. Some people claim that they see more on re-watching it, but, those people are just drinking something strange.

Unlike an A-movie like Pi (the Greek symbol), Momento, or Sixth Sense, this movie won't be improved much by multiple watchings. Yes, they are some subtle things but they are also huge holes which simply can't be filled, except with imagination.

The story ... I don't know if to say that it ended ... or that it was more of a dissolving into nether. That might work for those who believe in Mugen Afterlife (i.e. transition to nothingness after death, metaphorically embodied in a story in which there is no implied ever after, but rather, a dissolving of the entire framework and the characters that comprise it), but for the average domestic / Western / non-nihilist person, we'd like to know that the characters lived happily (or even sadly, or painfully, or tragically) ever after....

So, overall, 7 / 10: Solid B movie, but, too weird (both plot-wise and in content) for most people.

Hit, kick, bore.

[agoraphobicnosebleed · 5/10 · 3 February 2005]

A movie that is supposed to be 100% gore, 100% bloody and 100% extreme(as the Japan Shock DVD cover modestly states), is a movie I gotta see. I love gore movies, and with all the praise Naked Blood had been getting, well, I just had to check it out. Pity to say, I was disappointed.

Hisayasu Sato is, of course, one of the biggest names in extreme Japanese cinema, responsible for movies such as Lolita: Vibrator Torture and Rape: For Real. Naked Blood is a step away from these mainly sex-driven movies, and even tries for some sort of plot. Kid scientist invents new painkiller, tests it on three girls who then start to experience pain as pleasure. With all the horrible results you can imagine.

Now, the gore in the movie is definitely gory, although it's all very bearable. But where does this movie go wrong then? Imo, its problem lies in the fact that it's overly pretentious. A plot is one thing, but a Freudian hyper-bizarre moronic plot is another. The worst thing about the whole story though, is how generic it is - in all its bizarreness, it's never complex. Basically everything is predictable and, to be honest, boring. This movie has a runtime of 76 minutes, but it isn't even able to stay interesting.

In the end, the overall feeling you get from this movie is a 'wtf' one. Whether that's because of the fact that you couldn't stand the gore, found the story immensely complicated, or, like me, found it a moderately enjoyable waste of a good 76 minutes, I don't know, but wtf it shall be.

Leaves me to say that the old Super8 film Eiji's mother is watching is strangely intriguing, and possibly the highlight of this movie. Its faded colors and bright tone, combined with a mysterious 'plot', makes for a seriously interesting movie-in-a-movie. At this points, Hisayasu Sato displays a hidden genius. However, the rest of Naked Blood still is nothing but 100% mediocre.

Disturbing... Yet An Excellent Film

[CMRKeyboadist · 9/10 · 12 October 2006]

I should start off by saying that I am a huge gorehound. I like movies that take things to the extreme. I heard of this movie through watching the infamous Guinea Pig series. A person from IMDb specifically told me if I liked that series that I should love Naked Blood. After a few months of searching for this title I finally came across it. What I thought was going to be a straight splatter fest turned into a rather psychological film that just happened to have some really disturbing elements to it.

The storyline is not really what is in the forefront of the movie, more or less, it was the atmosphere and moodiness of the film (and of course the gore), but I will give a brief description anyway. A 17 year old boy genius has created a serum that if injected will turn pain into pleasure. He decides to test it on three girls and the results are exactly what you think they might be.

This film is so much more then that brief description, though. There is a lot of bizarre elements to the film that in one viewing couldn't possibly be understood. Hell, I don't even know if multiple viewings could sum up what the meaning of this film is. If you have seen this movie, you should know what I am talking about. If you haven't seen this then just watch it for yourself.

In my opinion, this was a great movie. Easily becomes one of my favorites. If you can find it, buy it. 9/10

Crawls underneath your skin

[IMDB_Is_A_Troll_Surfboard · 7/10 · 13 December 2006]

I'd expected this movie to be over the top goorfest, but has just enough body decapitation to satisfy the most demented fans. A scientist invents a new pain killer to use on his mother's patient. The rest is pretty much how the side effects really take in effect! Make plans on watching this movie late night when your body is numb and relaxed to a point that a tranquilized horse can't move. Don't bring any bed time snacks while watching this flick because you'll end up vomiting in your own bed and vomit some more. It isn't a horror film but more off a shock value, and it does shock indeed. Make sure you pick up the Discotek's R1 USA DVD.

Boooooring

[npr77 · 2/10 · 4 September 2003]

Hmm, IMDb rating of 7.5, good comments, bla, bla ... okay, two of my friends and me, we orderd Pizza, sat down and wanted to see something as cool as Ichi or at least something brainless but funny like Versus. But Naked Blood sucked. It's a complete waste. Okay, the scene with the woman who likes to eat is quite outstanding. But that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. I won't summerize the plot, other people did already, I just wanted to stop the hype. But watch it and rate for yourself. Maybe we can push the rating where it sould be. One more thing that comes to my mind: the soundtrack is even worse than Carpenter ever was - okay, John's cool ... :) 2/10

essential viewing

[white pongo · 3 October 2000]

Sato's extension of his earlier GENUINE RAPE is an incredible transgressive horror movie.A teenage boy sabotages his mother's anti-pregnancy experiments by spiking the test injections with his own endorphin called "Myson".Myson is his own concoction which turns pleasure into pain.The greater the pain,the greater the pleasure.Without wanting to spoil any surprises,i can warn the more weak hearted that there are some shocking scenes (a woman eats her own vagina lips with a knife and fork).But for viewers up to it,it's a fascinating,intelligent dissection of a movie that unwaveringly follows it's own premise no matter where it leads (like prime David Cronenberg for example).And it's a top notch exploitation classic. Sato is a very prolific director who's made countless movies (usually in the areas of sex and violence) since the 80's-but as far as i know,only this and THE BEDROOM are available subtitled in English. Did i mention the Virtual Reality cactus?

Good but not Great,

[ernie_guy · 6/10 · 15 March 2006]

I seen this movie many many years ago and just recently seen the famous "eye" part on the couple of web sites just this month. I like this movie couple years ago but the key word is years ago. At that time it may have made you sick but now looking back and thinking about it,, who would talk to a plant (esp. a cactus?? heck I would not even talk to Cactus Jack in Philly). Now it seem like a cool joke in Japan but it is STILL shocking to some American people (I just shown the DVD to couple friends and two left the room). I just like to say this, "see it if you would like to see just how far Japan was and still is ahead to American in this area" but to other people.. you have already (like me) moved on.

Better than I expected, and with more depth

[Groverdox · 7/10 · 11 July 2023]

"Splatter: Naked Blood" is a better movie than I expected it to be. And a more interesting one. I was expecting a tedious, nausea-inducing gorefest, and although the movie did make me feel a little queasy on occasion, there's a lot more going on in it than just the violence.

The plot concerns a new medication that basically turns its users into masochists or sadists. Eiji, the boy-genius scientist, wants to reduce human suffering by turning pain into pleasure with his serum. It goes wrong, however, when the pleasure proves addictive as any drug, and users need to inflict greater and greater harm on themselves to get the best kick.

Eiji has a crush on a girl he meets whom he administers the drug to, who is unable to sleep due to some shock to her system when she got her first period. Instead of sleeping she has a machine which looks like a virtual reality headset she wears when she's supposed to be sleeping, and for some reason, puts it on a cactus. I didn't understand that bit.

The three actresses who play the girls who take Eiji's serum are all really good looking, especially Rika, the insomniac (played by Misa Aika). The movie is undoubtedly an exploitation effort, so it seems surprising to note that the movie's few scenes of sex and nudity are done almost "tastefully". Seems weird to say that about a movie in which a woman eats her own labia, but here we are.

The movie has some interesting imagery, some flashback scenes adding depth to characters, and intriguing dialogue. The scene where Eiji and Rika meet seems to belong in a more serious drama.

I was expecting bargain basement schlock, and I didn't get it. I got something better. I say check this one out.

*Warning* "Splatter: Naked Blood" will make you hurl!

[tonymo1977 · 7/10 · 27 May 2010]

"Splatter: Naked Blood"

One of the better, simplistic formulas to shake the foundation of the genre in quite some time, has arrived. A few aspects that can be appreciated about "Splatter" are the minimal expenditures of plot twists. Director Hisayasu Sato( "Night of the Anatomical Doll", "Soft Skin") hides none of the script(written by Taketoshi Watari) behind any closed doors for the imagination to guess against. Every bit of this film is in plain view. As the film develops along its 76 min trek to absolution, no punches are pulled. What IS lacking in script writing, is made up in a major way in the special make up department. The world famous Yuichi Matsui (Kill Bill: Vol 1 & 2, The Ring I, II and IV, Audition, Imprint, Ichi the Killer and The Grudge I &II. Please don't make me go on, this guys resume is beyond world class.) circumnavigates the classic effects that made him famous, ranging from disgusting, imaginative, to vomit inducing!

It's just one of those very simple films, budget is not extravagant, the story is not overly imaginative. The acting is decent, although the sound editing is great. You can hear every stab, gouge and slice in Dolby Stereo Surround. On the spectrum of short, time wise, there is a bit of a wait to get things rolling, however when the time is right and the meat of the story(or special effects) starts to develop....you know that saying..."when it rains.....it pours? Yeah....like that!

A young scientist prodigy Eiji (Sadao Abe) is working on his latest experiment, a formula aptly named "MYSON" designed to relieve pain. He feels it is very close to completion and is ready for clinical trials. His mother Yuki (Masumi Nakao) is herself a scientist, specializing in fertility. As her son comes to visit her, she is in the middle of her own trials. Three women are currently involved in a contraceptive experiment. Eiji arrives and asks if he may sit in on his mothers work for a bit. She denies him and asks him to leave her to her work. The opportunity to share his medical breakthrough passes and while his mother is turned the other way, he reveals a vial of his formula and inserts it into the IV bags, unbeknown-st to his mother and the three women.

These three women play a pivotal role in the film, their characters have very distinct attributes that make more sense later in the film. Girl #1 ( Plant Girl) has a 6 foot cactus in her apartment....yeah, kinda weird, however, maybe she is a plant lover! Well, NO( or maybe yes, just in a very odd, loving way). She just happens to have a virtual reality machine hooked up to the plant and to her(when she puts the head set on), so she can communicate with the plant, have virtual sex with it....yeah...really not sure why she has it set up to the cactus.Girl #2 ( Glutton Girl) She loves food, good food and all food she can get her mitts on. Girl #3 (Vain Girl) She loves designer clothes, looking her best at all times and of course looking at herself in the mirror.

Our young Eiji follows his test subjects from a far, watching from building tops or a few blocks away, carefully observing their responses and effects to the "MYSON" cocktail.

I thought this was a horror film with a great FX Director...where is all the good stuff at? I haven't seen a single drop of High Fructose Corn Syrup( I mean Blood)!

Patience my young Pad-Wan; patience!

Without giving away too much, I will issue a:

*Mild Spoiler Alert*

These girls have been subjected to an unknown, untested substance, with out their knowledge. This "MYSON" increases the secretion of endorphins' from the pituitary gland when pain is felt, giving the women increased pleasure when any pain is induced (or extreme body mutilation...let the gore begin).

When the makeup effects arrive, they come wielding, kitchen utensils, cooking oil and much, much more! Yuichi's work can be seen in many Takashi Miike films and he generally doesn't disappoint. This is another occasion where you will get all of your money's worth.

I'm compelled to tell you a small amount of what you can expect from the horrifically graphic, in full view scenes of "Splatter: Naked Blood". Scene #1: Glutton Girl cuts off her vagina......and......EATS IT!!! Scene #2: Glutton Girl sticks a fork in her eye, pulls it out, optic nerve and all....and....EATS IT!!

Splatter is carried specifically on content. Nothing about the films writing is anything to get excited about. Anyone can write stick fork in eye..eat eye. Sure to the non-gore watching community, stomachs would be turning in knots, however enlist the expertise of master effects director Yuichi Matsui and those stomachs turn into empty ones. Not the best characterization and plot development, however, If shock is what you like; you must see this film, it was for me! When the good stuff rolled in, it was in tsunami like waves. Watch it!

BruceVain

Another over rated gore fest.

[mgproductions2006 · 4/10 · 7 March 2008]

Well. this was not a surprise. many people will tell you this is gory. but they are all talking "shiztz" this film is very slow.

It starts off with some guy who makes a concoction to feel no pain he calls it "my son" there is some gory scenes but i found them kind of weak. you might as well skip 40 minutes of the movie and get to the eyeball scene which was surprisingly impressive and sickening. there is some really stupid scenes in this. and they dub over the hits and slaps with stupid fake slapping sound which makes me laugh! i would not recommend it. keep looking gore hounds.

check this out if you want the like 20-10 minute ending scene which still is not that amazing and has a random scene of the guy trying to like rape his mum.. yeah its weird.

Very Interesting (And Quite Good) Japanese "Extreme" Gore Film

[EVOL666 · 9/10 · 2 December 2005]

Despite the hard-core gore scenes that many people talk about in this film, NAKED BLOOD is a surprisingly intelligent entry in the Japanese "extreme gore" genre.

Eiji is a young science prodigy who develops a drug he calls MY SON, that stimulates endorphins in the body so that pain is diminished, and in some cases can even become pleasurable. Eiji's mother is also a scientist who is experimenting with contraceptive drugs on three young women. Eiji decides to test his serum by spiking the drugs that his mother is experimenting with. The three women are unknowingly given the MY SON along with the contraceptive drugs, and Eiji begins to observe the women to see what the effects are. Over the course of the film, we find that one of the women is obsessed with food, another with her appearance, and the third is kinda a weirdo with extreme insomnia. The drug slowly begins to have profound effects on the first two women...The one obsessed with food begins to experience pleasure from eating her own body parts, including her finger, labia, nipple and eyeball (all in extremely graphic and awesome detail)...The appearance lady becomes obsessed with piercing herself (also in graphic detail, but not quite as cool as the eat-herself-lady)...and at first, the insomniac doesn't appear to have any real symptoms. When she finally does, this is where NAKED BLOOD really takes off in terms of story-line...

I personally think NAKED BLOOD is a great film for what it is. The graphic gore scenes are very rough, but honestly make up only a fraction of the film's running time. This film intelligently deals with subject matter such as pleasure vs. pain, obsession, ambition, betrayal and heredity. I have to say I was expecting an all-out bloodbath (which is usually all I want to see from these types of films...) but was very pleasantly surprised to see a real "movie" amidst the bloodshed. Very highly recommended, but only for those that can handle this new wave of Japanese splatter. 9/10

And they say that 'Hellraiser" has S&M subtexts...

[Soucriant · 7/10 · 22 October 2008]

"Naked Blood" tells the story of a young budding scientist named Eiji, who invents a serum called Myson to target pain with endorphins. His mother, also a scientist, is testing a new contraceptive on three girls, and Eiji slips Myson into the contraceptive, which results in some unforeseen consequences...

As Eiji observes his three guinea pigs, we learn more about the women. One girl is consumed by her appearance, and spends her time in front of the mirror trying on jewellery. When she discovers that pain causes extreme pleasure; her jewellery becomes her new body piercing kit, the importance of vanity gone out the window.

The other girl talks about food a lot, and seems to think about it even more. She becomes aware of the new-found joys of pain, and resorts to some "alternative" culinary, in what is undoubtedly the highlight of the film, which no one deserves to have ruined for them.

Eiji takes a shine to the third girl, who is rather reclusive and has a few "quirks." She suffers from extreme insomnia, and has some sort of electronic equipment hooked up to a cactus, which she claims that she "feels at one with." Through this device, she is able to experience dream-like images. She also has enhanced hearing, and can apparently hear plants and animals talk.

Eiji's drug appears to have no effect on the cactus chick, but a neat little twist reveals that her symptoms materialise in a different way. The plot begins to unravel, and sink into weird dream-like imagery; I'm still trying to figure out the ending.

Naked Blood is certainly a different and strong entry into J-splatter, that should definitely be seen by more people. Admittedly, things are left ambiguous, or maybe not even very clear, but there is more than just a blood bath here, and it's worth a look.

Horror ? No, i'd say comedy..

[siriouslysid · 1/10 · 8 November 2009]

As a huge fan of horror films, especially J-horror and also gore i thought Nekeddo burâddo sounded pretty good. I researched the plot, read reviews, and even looked at some photos to make sure it seemed like a good gory and scary movie to watch before downloading it. So excited it had finished and ready to be scared and recoiling in horror at the amazing gore i was expecting i was terribly disappointed. The plot was ridiculous and didn't even make sense and left too much unexplained, the gore was hilarious rather then horrifying, and what was with the cartoon style sound effects ? The acting was probably the only thing mildly scary about it. I did not understand the cactus idea and the way the mothers husband disappeared in the middle of the sea after following a flashing light, they left both pretty unexplained, or perhaps i missed it as my mind couldn't understand what i was actually seeing. I appreciate the way it was supposed to be; shocking and a few scenes (the strange cannibalism and own mother kissing?)certainly were, i just think they went a little bit far and not even in a horrifying way, they made it to unconvincing which made it more believable to be a comedy rather than a horror in my opinion. However it is a very entertaining film and got a lot of laughs out of me and a couple of friends, but sadly we were expecting horror not comedy so its worth a watch for the entertainment value, but don't be expecting a dark, deeply scary and horrifying film; you'll just be disappointed. If this was a horror comedy/spoof i'd probably rate it about a nine, the climax being the weird scene when the husband climbed inside his wife's stomach and closed up her wounds, but as a horror sadly i gave it a one.

Naked Blood

[Scarecrow-88 · 8/10 · 13 May 2009]

My God, this movie's savage! A young prodigy, Eiji(Sadao Abe), has created an experimental painkiller which increases endorphins in the brain(..his dream was to bring eternal happiness, a goal paying homage to his eccentric scientist father who was in search of eternal joy into the "light")which reverses the natural order of the bodies reaction to pain. If one inflicts pain to themselves(..or others in Rika's case)it is an addictive pleasure that grows.

Eiji's mother, Yuki(Masumi Nakao)is experimenting with a new drug on three voluntary test subjects hoping to develop a method of combating a potential pregnancy(..her desire is to tackle overpopulation on the earth). Eiji decides to test his serum by intermingling his drug with Yuki's with startling(..and quite unpleasant)results. The three girls react differently to the endorphin drug according to their own personal weakness. Misa Aika is an insomniac loner named Rika who has a "sleep installation device" which allows her to experience dream-like hallucinations. She discovers Eiji spying on her with his video recorder and starts up a friendship with the kid. Rika admits she hates people and once the drug kicks in she assaults her colleagues, the girls who also served as unwilling participants in Eiji and Yuki's hybrid concoction. Yumika Hayashi loves to eat(..it's all she thinks and talks about)soon cannibalizing herself! Mika Kirihara is a model obsessed with maintaining a perfect figure and beauty soon piercing her body with needles and other sharp items(..she reacts towards her body, because she "hates" herself, or that's my opinion).

The violence is quite unnerving and grisly, to say the least. A hand is purposely placed in cooking grease and chewed into. The tip of a breast nipple is carved apart by a knife and eaten(..not to mention, an eyeball is gouged out by a fork, plucked from the socket, and fed upon slowly, the recipient savoring every bite). I won't even bother elaborating on vagina violence and it's meal to the one victimizing herself. We also witness a screwdriver used to penetrate through the flesh of an arm, and a stomach is opened up by a scalpel! There are even weirder moments in the film concerning Yuki's husband's fate and his "return." We see an entire body enter the hole of a victim's stomach, closing himself in! And, the symbolic use of a cactus(!) also has a part within the story of Rika. Rika suffered a "menstrual shock" which is said to have caused her sleeping disorder(..while also causing sensitive hearing which makes even the slightest sounds of bugs within a flowery garden path agonizing). She has a theory regarding the cactus and it's therapeutic effects on the one who "melds" with it.

Strange experience; the gore-scenes are incredibly repulsive and explicit. Director Hisayasu Sato, who I am not familiar with, has created quite a profound character study using violence in a very atypical way to tell his story. Sato pulls no punches and takes no prisoners, but has a very methodical approach in regards to developing his story.

Really

[sacbrina · 1/10 · 12 December 2011]

Before watching this movie I read many of the reviews that are here on IMDb. According to the majority of the reviews I read many people saw this is as a gore film with "intelligence". I have one thing to say to that....... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This was a confusing mess with a poor attempt at a plot. The beginning of the film started out promising with a what seemed to a pretty straight forward story but as soon as things began to get interesting it veered off course and made absolutely no sense. There are several "goofs" in the film such as a slash wound that suddenly disappears after the fake blood has run down the skin. The only decent special effect in the movie was the eyeball removing scene. Everything else was just poorly done. My advice to any would-be watcher is don't waste your time.

Total grue

[Beast-5 · 3 February 2004]

NAKED BLOOD is one of those movies that go way too far, showing the viewer things they don't want to see with no apology whatsoever. I had heard how extreme it was and wanted to see it. I was not disappointed, because there's an actual story happening here, not just mindless gore. Not that there's anything wrong with mindless gore...I just wasn't

prepared for the film to be so thought-provoking and beautiful.