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I'll start off with the movies Mandi mentioned. All of them are indeed pretty nasty and are amongst the well-known movies in this particular genre.
The Untold Story, directed by Herman Yau and starring Anthony Wong, is a nasty 1992 movie about a guy who kills of a family and sells their meat as burgers. Graphic and quite harsh, it's a movie that definitely isn't for the faint of heart and/or stomach. Similarly graphic but less harsh, is
Ebola Syndrome, also directed by Yau and also starring Wong. This time around, it's about a man who contracts ebola on a trip to the jungle and who then goes on a killing spree. It's at times fairly similar to The Untold Story (even using the same concept halfway through the movie), but, if possible, a tad more light-hearted and thorougly amusing even. Easily one of my favorite gore-flicks out there and highly recommended (same for
The Untold Story, btw). Be warned though,
Ebola Syndrome features two or three scenes that depict animal cruelty. I'm not sure if you're aware of the concept and if you may even have seen a flick that features suchs scenes. If not - well, it basically means that in these sequences animals actually get killed for the purpose of the movie (something that, in reality, almost borders on snuff). Stuff like this happened a lot back in the early 80s, when the so-called cannibal-genre was fairly big. Most of these cannibal movies featured extremely graphic scenes of animals being tortured and killed. The animal cruelty scenes in
Ebola Syndrome aren't all that shocking, especially not if you've seen something like
Cannibal Ferox, but be warned nevertheless.
Second, the
All Night Long series. Although reportedly very gorey and disgusting, they're not very graphic at all - although certainly disturbing. However, they focus more on the psychological side of things, mainly emphasizing on the effects of group behavior among youths. They're quite nihilistic and worth seeking out if you're in for a relatively devastating ride. The second entry in the series,
All Night Long II: Atrocity is probably the best of all, excellently showcasing not only the mind****ing quality of the series, but also having some very decent gore scenes (including one that's really nasty, although in fact merely the aftermath is shown).
The
Guinea Pig series are probably the most infamous bunch of underground horror movies ever, period. Although initially produced for the Japanese market only, a heavily edited version of the second entry in the series,
Flower Of Flesh And Blood found its way to the US trading circuit. Due to the disturbing nature of the movie (it being a snuff-simulation) and the complete lack of information, many people believed it to be an actual snuff film - eventually leading to Charlie Sheen reporting it to the FBI after having seen the video at a party. Ever since then, the
Guinea Pig movies have been gorehounds' favorites, as the controversy around these flicks sparked the interest of a vast amount of horror fans. The last four entries (
He Never Dies (#3), [b]Mermaid In A Manhole[b] (#4),
Android Of Notre Dame (#5), and
Devil Woman Doctor (#6)) are by far not as harsh as the first two entries, but possibly the best of the bunch to check out at first. That said,
Android Of Notre Dame is horrible and
Devil Woman Doctor is too campy to be disgusting - however,
He Never Dies and
Mermaid Of A Manhole are fairly interesting. They both have at least some kind of story to keep things interesting, plus bucket loads of gore and worms and other slimy stuff which makes them perfectly enjoyable. The first two entries,
Devil's Experiment and
Flower Of Flesh And Blood are something completely different. Lacking anything that could go for a story, they try and gross out the viewer by simulating snuff movies. Whereas
Devil's Experiment mostly relies on all forms of nasty torture and isn't that graphic,
Flower Of Flesh And Blood is all about the gore and shows us a woman being hacked to pieces - all in unflinching detail.
Then there's
Men Behind The Sun. Director T.F. Mous had originally made this movie to document the horrible practises of the Japanese when they invaded China (and mainly Manchuria). It showed, all in detail, horrible forms of torture and murder - which made it, of course, an instant hit among gore fans. The series were then completely exploited with two terrible sequels directed by Geoffrey Ho, mainly featuring material from the original
Men Behind The Sun ('flashbacks' - sure, Geoffrey) with a little bit of new material being squeezed in between every now and then. T.F. Mous (logically) felt that this was nothing but pure abuse, and then went on to direct
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, also known as
Men Behind The Sun 4. That said, I would not recommend seeing any of the series' movies, due to one simple fact: the first movie features not only graphic animal cruelty, but also an actual autopsy on the dead body of a young boy. For this very reason I have never even considered picking up one of the
Men Behind The Sun movies - simply disgusting in a very wrong way.
Now we're going to move into a more obscure area - the movies I'm going to list here are mostly terribly difficult to come across if you're not relying on bootlegs, simply because a lot of them haven't been released outside of Japan to begin with - and some not even on DVD.
We'll start off with the works of Daisuke Yamanouchi. His
Red Room movies are probably his claim of fame, as they're even being released by Unearthed at some point.
Red Room 1 and
Red Room 2 have a similar plot, revolving around four people who are playing a card game in a room from where thay can not leave until just one of them remains. By winning the card games, they can torture their fellow participants in the most horrible ways they can come up with. Another of Yamanouchi's movies is
Muzan-E, which may or may not be released by Unearthed in the future (it's been rumored, but not confirmed). It's another movie that utilises the snuff element - however, a bit of a story is present as well. A journalist happens upon what she suspects to be snuff movies, and then goes and investigates. Granted, it's not much of a story, but it's certainly interesting. Furthermore, it is supposed to be quite graphic and pretty disgusting. Another one to look out for.
Then there's
Niku-Daruma, best known under the faulty title of
Psycho: The Snuff Reels. Once again, a movie that simulates snuff. Unlike
Muzan-E however, there's no story to speak off. It starts out as a hardcore porn movie, then moves into bondage/fetish-type stuff and eventually turns into fake-snuff - the female lead being tortured, abused, and eventually murdered. A nasty film, also because of its hardcore pornographic and fetishist elements.
There's also some more extreme entries in the pinku genre (artsy Japanese porn), most of which are immensily hard to come by but worth seeking out if you're interested in the peculiar combination of porn and gore. Some extreme pinku movies are
Lolita: Vibrator Torture and
Rape: For Real.
Then there's the really obscure stuff - the
Onna Harakiri series; compilations of movies that show women commiting hara-kiri. The end. They're very detailed, very graphic, very disgusting, and very hard to find. They're produced by Fuji Kikaku, a Japanese company that mainly specializes in extreme fetish movies (bondage, puking, etc.). They're available to order from Fuji Kikaku's website, but as they're amazingly expensive (8,500 yen per DVD) I wouldn't recommend buying them. I'd personally love to see them, but I find shelling out that much for something like this a tad too crazy. Some of the movies that are featured on these compilations are available on bootlegs (mainly the ones directed by Masami Akita, better known as noise musician Merzbow), but not all of them by far.
Lastly, for the most jaded of persons who think all of this stuff isn't disgusting in the least, there's the mondo genre, which I don't recommend you check out (I don't watch this crap either) but is worth mentioning altogether. I'm assuming you're aware of the existence of the mondo genre, films in which actual atrocities and aftermaths are shown - in other words, nothing but disgusting, sick collections of imagery of dead people. The Americans first had
Faces Of Death (always pointed out the be the first shockumentary, although it is by no means the first mondo film), which was a hoax mostly, and then came up with the reportedly vomit-inducing
Traces Of Death and
Faces Of Gore series. However, as the Japanese know best how to take their extremities to the extreme, they have some videos that make all the Traces and Faces look like
Finding Nemo. Some infamous mondo productions from Japan are
Death Files (a series that spawned several sequels),
The Shocks (I quote from Jack Hunter's
Eros In Hell: "Scene upon scene of genuine atrocities make it an unrelenting, disconsolate trip in hell. People leap from burning apartment blocks and cameras follow their lethal fall, right to the nauseating impact on concrete.") and
Death Women, probably the sickest series you'd ever find in this world (I quote again from
Eros In Hell: "Among the "highlights" of the film are a recently stabbed woman's body leaking dark beads of blood, a woman pulverised by a bus literally falling to pieces when removed from the wreckage, and a carving knife still jutting from the stomach of a murdered child. (...) At least eight volumes of
Death Women have been issued to date.").
Hope this gives you an idea of what kind of stuff is available, although this is by no means a complete list of what kind of things are available - if you've got more questions just ask.
