American Guinea Pig
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| German title | American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore |
| Original title | American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK unchecked, indexed and confiscated nationwide |
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| Director | Stephen Biro |
| script | Stephen Biro |
| production | Stephen Biro |
| music |
Kristian Day , Jimmy ScreamerClauz |
| camera | Jim Van Bebber |
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American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore is an American splatter film from 2014. The film, directed by Stephen Biro, is based on the Guinea Pig film series and plays with motifs from the snuff film . American Guinea Pig 2: Bloodshock followed in 2015, American Guinea Pig 3: Sacrifice in 2017 .
action
Two girls are kidnapped by an initially three-person film team and draped on two operating beds. They are then drugged and given a muscle-paralyzing preparation so that they remain conscious for as long as possible. A man wearing a goat head mask appears as the perpetrator while the director gives him instructions. In addition to the director, there is also a cameraman on site. When he shows scruples during the crime, his family is threatened, who are being held captive by the film team. He later has to be replaced by a second cameraman.
On the first victim, the extremities are tied off and then slowly removed. Her jaw is then broken and one eye is cut. The ties are removed and the victim bleeds out. She is then eviscerated and the man in the goat head mask eats her heart. The second victim is first skinned on the extremities. Her chest is then opened. She is also gutted. Her cross chain is placed on the still beating heart. She dies from a cut throat.
In the editing room, the director talks to the editor about what should happen to the renegade cameraman. The last scene shows his children, an infant and a boy of about four years old being laid on the operating beds.
background
Stephen Biro's production company Unearthed Films edited the controversial Guinea Pig series in the United States during the 1990s and 2000s. Biro decided to shoot a US version. The film is based heavily on Flowers of Flesh and Blood , in which a samurai tortures a young girl in a similar way. The film was then believed to be real by Charlie Sheen and led to an FBI investigation . Biro was supported by splatter director Jim Van Bebber and special effects artist Marcus Koch .
The film was shot on coarse-grained Super 8 in a 4: 3 ratio with a handheld camera . It is repeatedly interrupted by cuts in which the batteries or the VHS tapes are changed. This imitates the style of the old Guinea Pig series, which spread in the USA through tape trading on VHS and was therefore mostly of poor quality.
The film was first shown in the United States on October 24, 2014 at the Corey Mitchell and Phil Anselmo's Housecore Horror Film Festival in San Antonio , Texas . The film had its DVD premiere on July 21, 2015. A German-language version was released on September 4, 2015 as the first release by the Austrian independent label Extreme. The mediabook, limited to 500 copies, appeared in four cover versions and is only intended for sale in Austria.
American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore was confiscated in January 2018 by the Fulda Regional Court under Section 131 of the German Criminal Code .
Web links
- American Guinea Pig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Unsworth: Movie News: Are You Prepared For AMERICAN GUINEA PIG? Starburstmagazine.com, April 24, 2014, accessed December 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Review: American Guinea Pig - Bouquet of Guts and Gore (Unearthed Films). Daily Horror, September 15, 2015, accessed December 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Housecore ™ Horror Film Festival Announces World Premiere Screening of Stephen Biro's 'AMERICAN GUINEA PIG'. Horrornews.at, September 18, 2014, accessed December 31, 2015 .
- ↑ American Guinea Pig in the online film database
- ↑ Gerald Wurm: American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore was cashed in (Schnittberichte.com). Retrieved July 3, 2018 .