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5.0 out of 5 stars
More guinea splatter goodness, September 9, 2002
This review is from: Guinea Pig Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies Double Feature (DVD)
The 2nd installment from the guys at Unearthed Films is a drastic difference from the first DVD(Devils/Android). This is freaking awesome all the gore was not left out of this one, Meramid in a manhole was totally digusting and He never dies had me wincing at a few parts then laughing...at others.The menu design and added trailers to this DVD are top notch. Can't wait for Flower of Flesh and Blood to come out (after i saw the trailer). Overall this DVD is bad to the bone.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
The gore is good, everything else is a boring mess., October 31, 2011
This review is from: Guinea Pig Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies Double Feature (DVD)
As these movies have a bit of a cult following I might make some people angry by this review, and I am sorry about that but I can not do anything but say what I really mean about them. This DVD set gives you two movies, Mermaid in a Manhole and He Never Dies, of the two Mermaid in a Manhole is the strongest. I will however point out that none of these movies are over an hour long they are short films not feature length. Mermaid in a Manhole is a few minutes short of an hour if I do not remember it wrong, and He Never Dies is about 45 minutes long.
Mermaid in a Manhole is about a struggling artist who is trying to deal with the loss of his wife by going down in the sewers and making surrealistic paintings of garbage. One day when he is down looking for new motives for his paintings he find a mermaid, the painter remembers that he had met this mermaid when he was a boy and the sewers where a river. It turns out the mermaid is very ill, having been poisoned from living in the sewer to long, so our hero takes her home and starts to make a portrait of her.
He Never Dies is about a young man who is socially awkward, hates his job, get picked on by his boss and generally thinks his life suck. One day the protagonist decides to take his own life only to discover that he is immortal, he literary can not die no matter how much damage he takes. This movie have no story what so ever, it is just the protagonist cutting himself to pieces trying to find a way to kill himself and after a while trying to scare his friends by continuing the self mutilation in front of them.
Now here is the problem with these movies, there are no story it is just gore. For both movies could literary sum up the story in one sentence and all the rest is just blood and body parts flying. Now if you are a gore hound then I am sure you might enjoy this DVD set, after all Guinna Pig is the movie series that where called in to prove that their actors where still alive as the gore at times look so realistic, and especially for the time it was made that many though they where real snuff movies. Now however if you like me value a horror movie more for it's story than for gore then this movie set will not satisfy you. The gore effects are brilliant for it's time, but that is all these two movies are, gore, gore, gore. I found the movies boring after a while, they did not shock me and I found myself just waiting for some semblance of a plot to start, but it never did.
Now, if you are a gore fan or a horror movie collector I do recommend this set because it is obscure and make a nice addition to a collection. I think also that if you are interested in special effects you might enjoy this as the creators of these movies have put allot of thought into making it realistic. If you however is looking for a scary story then this movie is not for you. The acting is bad, the story is non existence and in fact everything but the gore is awful, I do not care if this have a cult following, these movies are just not good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Gory and gruesome!, September 11, 2002
This review is from: Guinea Pig Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies Double Feature (DVD)
Mermaid in a manhole is totally gruesome and in your face. I found the story higly revolting and hte effects are just gross. He never dies is an awesome gore comedy. Not as funny as Bad Taste but it has it's moments. Menu design rules. Hail Guinea Pig!
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