American Guinea Pig: Bloodshock (2015)

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I couldn't go to sleep yesterday so put on this movie to help me do so. It was quite enjoyable! I loved the music and how it complemented the b&w medical aestheticic. It was like a gory lullaby. However I have a couple of issues with the film: 1- The audio. You can't hear what the characters are saying. 2- The staff was killed off too easily. 3- The 'patient' doesn't give that much of a reaction to some of the rather painful 'pedicures' yet he was screaming and twitching when the doctor ran some spurs over his back. Really? The back isn't even a sensitive area. Maybe if he ran them over his balls that would've been more convincing. And fun too.

This is black and white gore porn. At least "Centipede 2" made sense. This one has no rhyme or reason. Being as it is black and white the gore effect was lessened...well the last 15 minutes has color if you make it that far. Our main character is in a cell and gets "experimented" on i.e. cut out his tongue, beat his knee with a hammer etc. (No power tools) . I initially suspected they are supposed to be making a snuff film, but even at that, it wasn't entertaining. He communicates with the person in another cell by passing notes.There is about 30 seconds at the end that ties this film together...sort of.Bloody sex and nudity that I don't wish to see again. A film you can watch and burn to prevent others from seeing it. I like "Blood Sucking Freaks" and had a fondness for "Centipede 2." This one I didn't like any scene at all.

Two extremely resilient prisoners, a man (Dan Ellis) and a woman (Lillian McKinney), are subjected to a series of brutal medical procedures by a sadistic doctor.I've always considered films like this to be challenge—to see if I can stomach the extreme violence being depicted. American Guinea Pig: Bloodshock is a challenge all right—to see if I can watch the whole thing without losing interest.Bloodshock proves to be an apt title, since I was shocked to see that nearly all of the blood in the film has been captured in glorious black and white! While the gore is graphic (yet nowhere near as relentlessly nasty as its predecessor, Bouquet of Guts and Gore), its effect on the viewer is seriously diminished thanks to a misguided attempt at an art-house style that simply doesn't suit the material. It seems like such a waste of effort.Director Marcus Koch's art-house approach also leads to interminable scenes that focus on the victims while they are locked in a padded cell, sharing poignant notes with each other through a hole in the wall, all of which serve to make the film a real chore at times. The pretentiousness is ramped up to 11 for the final act in which the two victims, free at last, decide not to escape but to get it on, reopening their wounds whilst having sex. At least that part pulls fewer punches, with the messiness now in full colour.A final twist—revealed during the end credits—tries to make some sense of what we have seen, but does little to improve matters.

'Bloodshock' is nightmarish, tender, perfectly paced and very intense. It's not derivative at all but it did, in some ways, remind me of 'Eraserhead' and 'Le Chien Andalou'. Having seen both AGP films in a row I've noticed that they absolutely excel at sound mixing ('Bloodshock' even uses some delicate piano notes to chilling effect) and the use of textured film-stock. I was utterly gripped for the entire 90 minutes and the tension (and weirdness) built up beautifully. 'Bloodshock' is a film that I expect to be recommending to people for a long time to come - it's definitely my favourite horror film on 2016, so far. Marcus Koch (the special effects guru behind 'Bouquet of Guts and Gore') proves that he is a brilliant and visionary director. I don't want to give anything away, so I won't say anything about what actually happens in the film...but you need to see it!