Not great by any means, but the best of the three

AKA Rusted Body

The third and final part of director Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu's 'Guts Trilogy'. Four criminals - two male, two female - 'make' their money by abducting business people and bankers who have embezzled company funds and torture them until they give up the location of the missing loot so they can appropriate it for themselves. Once they've got the information they continue to torture their victims anyway until they die. They then place the bodies in a mincer and feed them to their pigs. They kidnap one businessman whose crime should guarantee the gang their biggest payday yet, but he turns out to be made of stronger stuff...

So, Guts of a Virgin/Entrails of a Virgin was Gaira's 'cabin in the woods' type slasher, and Guts of a Beautiful Woman/Entrails of a Beautiful Woman was his take on 'rape-revenge'; this one is his venture into 'torture porn'. The sex/nudity is less again than in the previous movie - although there is still a lot of it. The gore is less too - but it's more convincing (e.g. Toenail and tooth extraction (both with pliers), finger breaking/removal). Also, this time we get to the gore pretty early. Prosthetics work, again there's less of it, but what there is is the most convincing of the three films. Some scenes go on too long, to the point of becoming repetitive, and a couple of the performances border on parody. The tone also wavers, with it not being really clear whether we're supposed to detest this gang, or (given that their victims are also criminals) quite like them. Generally, though. It's the best of the bunch. 6/10.

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