Ginî piggu 3: Senritsu! Shinanai otoko (1986) (V)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Masayuki Kusumi

Release Date:

10 April 1986 (Japan)

Genre:

Short | Horror | Comedy

Plot:

A men gets depressed because his girlfriend has dumped him for a friend. He tries to attempt suicide but to no avail...

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Blood | Extreme Violence | Extreme Gore | Gore

Cast

Shinsuke Araki	...	Masatosh Nakamura
Yumiko Kumashiro	...	Kyoko (as Eve)
Masahiro Satô	...	Yoshio
Rie Shibata
Keisuke Shinki

Also Known As:

Ginî piggu 3 (Japan) (series title)
Guinea Pig 3 (Japan: English title) (series title)
Guinea Pig: He Never Dies
He Never Dies

Runtime:

39 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Company:

Sai Enterprise

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the man who never dies says, "I will show you many painful things," his lips don't move.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Mêkingu obu 'Ginî piggu' (1986) (V)

Guinea Pig gets silly.

After the first two Guinea Pig movies, which could never really be described as 'fun', it comes as something of a surprise to find that the third in the series, He Never Dies, is actually quite lighthearted in comparison. It's still very gory, with some highly convincing and gruesome effects, but a juvenile sense of humour stops this one from being as grim as its predecessors.

Part three is introduced by a serious looking American guy who tells us that what we are about to see is a true story. Call me suspicious, but I don't think he's telling the truth...

An office worker who hates his job, and who has just lost his girlfriend, decides to end his life. However, after slicing open his wrist, he realises that killing himself will be a lot harder than he at first thought: he never dies! Having hacked at his wrists, sliced at his neck, and unsuccessfully tried to strangle himself, the obviously immortal fellow gives up trying to top himself. Instead, he decides to freak out his friend (who is currently banging his ex) by calling him up, inviting him round and then mutilating and dismembering himself in front of the terrified sap (he even guts himself and flings his entrails at the poor bloke).

By the time he has finished, he has reduced himself to nothing more than a talking severed head on a table.

I have noticed that several people on IMDb have compared this film to the early works of Peter Jackson, but even though there are the common denominators of comedy and outrageous gore, I don't think He Never Dies is either as funny or as wholly entertaining as the gore classics from the Kiwi wunderkind.

It is, however, a very peculiar film, and worth seeing, I guess, if you're a fan of silly splatter or truly bizarre cinema. And it's only 39 minutes long!

5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.