Soft Porn Comes To Horror

Sadly the title of this post is true. From what I have been reading this movie caused a lot of stir being a horror film back in 1986. Lucky for me, actually unlucky I think, the follow up to this movie, Entrails Of A Virgin, will be the next movie I will be watching. When I read things like "few Japanese horror films have managed to provoke quite as much revulsion as Entrails Of A Virgin," and "Prepare to be shocked, offended, horrified and repulsed by every single frame of this unbelievable Japanese cult classic… Remember, you’ve been warned!" I just have to watch it.

Right from the start thought it was obvious to me that this is mearly a soft porn movie. I was starting to wonder if there was going to be any type of horror thrown in and there eventually was. More than half of the movie was soft porn. The plot? Ok there was a little bit of one here. The movie starts with a photo shoot. There are three women who are models/helpers and three men who are the photographers and their boss. This takes forever because it is interlaced with scenes of the model and the main photographer having sex. She is doing this in order to get the modeling job that we are seeing. The scenes of the photo shoot take a while and the scenes of the two having sex take even longer.

Finaly the photo shoot is over and they pack it up to leave. Night falls and a heavy fog roles in. The find a building in the woods that is still being worked on and no one is there so they decide to hole up here for the night. The boss and the main photographer begin to talk about the model, the boss wants her for the night and is trying to find a way to split from the main group. The women try and figure out what the two are talking about so the boss orders the other photographer to wrestle. They get one of the helpers to wrestle with him but she doesn't do anything but scream a lot as the guy puts her in different wrestling holds. Eventually she pees herself and passes out. The guy gets mad at the boss and leaves. Are we having fun yet? I sure wasn't.

This is where we really get to see the monster for the first time. The description of the movie talked about a swamp monster but there is no monster. Just a guy covered in mud. He kills the guy that left the group with some sort of hammer to the head. Before the hammer connects we see things like a meat tenderizer hitting some meat and things like that. All through the movie there are weird shots thrown in like that one. Then we see the hammer hitting this guys head and his eyeballs pop out. It felt like slow motion but it was over very fast at the same time. More sex scenes come up, between the model and the boss (telling her he will get her plenty more jobs) and now between the main photographer and the other helper (telling her she will be the next model as long as she gives it up but she doesn't really want to since its her first time).

The model gets away, after losing some pubic hair, and runs into the monster. I will call him that since I don't know what else to call the guy. He did talk by the end in a weird voice but never moved his mouth. Anyways, the monster has his way with her which was shown by a silhouette of a gigantic penis entering her. She has great lines here such as "It's so big" and "I feel so good." Classic stuff here people. After he is done with her he just throws her to the side and leaves. A broken sign above gives way and of course the model happens to be under it and loses her head.



The monster takes turns killing a male then female and the another male and so on until there is just one woman left. He has sex with her and talks about things like he didn't asked to be raised in this world and there is only one power that can kill him but doesn't know if there is such a power right now. More exciting stuff in other words. Either she gets away or he lets her go, I don't know which since they so kindly left that part out. The woman is next shown somewhere with a big belly wondering what it is that is inside her. Then lava explodes from the ground.

The effects range from not to bad to very bad. The very bad being when the monster throws a spear at one of the men it is outright obvious it is going down the neck of his shirt instead of through him. When I got these two movies I said, "There had better be some entrails." I was rewarded with some which was the not so bad part of the effects. They aren't from a virgin though. The woman that passed out from wrestling wakes up very horny. So horny that she tries to make it with a corpse but that didn't work out to well so she ends up in like a shower room. The monster shows up and throws her a severed arm with the hand still attached and two fingers straight. She wastes no time using it to masturbate herself with. Ok it is kind of a sick thing but it made me laugh some. Then the monster has his way with her but that still isn't enough for her yet and she asks for more. He pushs his hand into her, way into her, like up to her belly button. Getting that far in is pretty impressive stuff. When he pulls his hand out he has some of her insides with it.

I have always thought the Japanese are a little strange and this movie kind of helps me with that idea. There is a law there, I don't know if it is still in effect, that forbids any depiction of the genitalia. Anytime it came close to showing genitalia it would blur out in that general area. But that didn't seem to stop them from showing a sort of cum shot and a girl spitting cum out of her mouth. Oh and lets not forget about the silhouette. I can't believe I am writing about this sort of thing. If you are into soft porn movies then you might enjoy this one. However, I am here to review horror movies and Entrails Of A Virgin falls well short of a good, even decent, horror movie.
1 out of 5 Humans posing as monsters