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The first Guinea Pig film, The Devil Experiment, was based on what is alleged to be an actual snuff film, and tells the story of a group of men who kidnap a woman in order to find out how humans react to extreme pain. The video shows the men torturing the woman in various ways.
The second video was also based on a purported snuff film, this one sent to one of the screenwriters. In it, a man dressed as a samurai drugs a woman and proceeds to cut her apart, and finally adds her body parts to an extensive collection. After viewing a portion of this film, Sheen was convinced the murder depicted was genuine and contacted police. The band Skinny Puppy wrote a song, "The Mourn", after discovering the video; when they later learned it was a fake they incorporated clips of it into their live stage shows.
The third film was not based on a real film, but instead on a bizarre crime scene in which it appeared that a man had cut himself apart and played with his body parts for several hours before dying. The movie is more mocking than the earlier two, and involves an elaborate revenge against the girl who drove the main character to attempting suicide.
Based off a manga by Hideshi Hino and directed by the mangaka himself, the next installment of the Guinea Pig series is about an artist who finds a young woman on the streets of Okinawa. The artist takes the young woman back to his house, and after a brief period of time, the young woman develops lacerations and begins to bleed. The artist uses the blood from the wounds to paint a portrait of the woman, but as he paints, her condition becomes extreme and she dies. The artist dismembers her body in his bathroom.
This story is about a scientist who tries to find a cure for his sister's grave illness. The scientist needs a "guinea pig" to perform experiments on. A stranger approaches the scientist with an offer of a body for the experiments. The scientist accepts and the stranger supplies the body for a price. The experiments do not go well and the scientist becomes enraged, hacking the body to pieces. The stranger approaches the scientist once again and supplies another body so the experiments can continue.
This is the story about a female doctor who is a transvestite, played by real-life Japanese transvestite Peter. She mutilates and eventually kills all of her patients. This episode shifted the tone of the series from graphic horror to slapstick comedy.
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