daliff This movie starts out very VERY slow, but when the action finally gets started, it's a little had to follow. I couldn't understand why some of the events were taking place, and a lot of events happened before they were explained, making them sort of confusing. The only thing it really has going for it is the massive amount of blood/gore it has, although most times the special effects are lacking. Blood looks like red Kool-Aid. Skin tearing sounds like somebody is stepping on a pile of sticks. Again, the story has a sort of amateur feel to it, like the writer didn't take a long time to perfect it. I feel like it could be a much better movie if the effects were done better and more time was taken on the script. I honestly wish I hadn't watched it, not because of the gore, but because I feel that i wasted 90 minutes of my life. If you like extremely gory movies, this is for you, if not, stay away.

Chris Barry Shot directly on video, Sato's Naked Blood is one of the most interesting examples of the Japanese Ero-guro genre, which attempts to combine sexual themes with body horror, a combination not really unusual in Japanese horror, but taken here to radical extremes.Anyone who has seen a Sato movie (Muscle, The Bedroom) knows what a personal filmmaker Sato is, even when working in so-called genre film-making. Half of Muscle was an incredible tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini and Yukio Mishima and his use of real-life cannibal Issey Sagawa in The Bedroom wins my vote for best stunt casting in a movie ever.Naked Blood is probably the best place to start with Sato because of all the work I've seen of his that isn't completely softcore pornography, it's definitely the least oblique and most accessible. The plot details have been outlined by other posters, so I won't do a synopsis, but frankly the gore, sadism and violence in this film is certainly intense and highly evocative of the manga of artists like Jun Hayami and Hideshi Hino.The essential premise of the video revolves around a drug that transmutes pain into pleasure. This causes those under its control to inflict wounds upon themselves including, but not limited to, cutting off their own genitalia and pushing screwdrivers through their forearms in search of 'extreme pleasure'.I saw this, remarkably, at the Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver CA's premiere Cinematheque and I thought there was going to be a riot. Never in my life have I seen so many people barrel out of a screening. I think the walkouts during this 76 min+/- video totaled more than all those I've seen exit Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Nekromantik, Schramm, Tokyo Decadence and Croenenberg's Crash combined. Entire rows of people left the cinema in wave after wave, six or seven people at a time.For those of you who found this movie 'boring' or not 'realistic' I would recommend you stop watching horror films altogether and start reading books like the heavily illustrated 'Russian Atrocites During World War 2', AP photos of the Liberian civil war or maybe the police recovery footage of the corpses under John Wayne Gacy's house, because obviously there's no hope for you in fiction. Besides, seeing some of that real stuff might just wise you up to the actual cost of human destruction.For those of you who are interested in the darker limits of the adult imagination, you will be very, very intrigued by this highly original work.

fertilecelluloid 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.

bandyimo Certain parts of this movie seemed amateurish and silly (The windex-esque 'my son' elixir, as well as his "Doogie Hauser like diary entries and his very adult sex scene toward the end... previously we were led to believe he was a precocious, bicycle riding teenager until he demonstrates the 'lotus' from the Kama Sutra! haha) ) while other aspects seemed surprisingly believable and well done. (the F/X and some of the dialog) The premise of someone trying to invent a better painkiller to reverse discomfort is certainly realistic, and it's also quite true that pain and pleasure are closely linked in the brain as evident by masochists. I have no idea how they achieved some of the 'goretastic' effects in this film but I am impressed, especially with the eyeball scene. How the hell did they do that? It looks totally real. (Maybe the girl has an artificial eye??? LOLI really liked the surreal elements toward the end (Climbing into the wound) although I confess I'm not sure what transpired in some cases. (The end.. what was that all about?) Ultimately I wanted to get across that the incredible gore and self mutilation in this film are not it's only 'positive' merits. (Although I doubt many people wouldn't cringe during some of the mutilation scenes....There almost seems to be a cautionary tale being told here.... (and that being possibly: "Boy geniuses have no business squirting windex looking wonder drugs into his mother's medical experiments, even if he is convinced he has cured pain forever.)