If you place yourself in the "not easily offended" category, then you're in for a real gore-filled treat.  Entrails of a Beautiful Woman is pure exploitation, with its excessive imagery of women being brutalized and bloodied. But it's far tamer than its super-misogynistic, splatter OD'd predecessor Entrails of a Virgin -- which was pretty much hardcore violent porn veiled by a slasher flick. The splatter effects are plentiful, but Gaira gives them an almost intentionally comic, cheesy low budget appeal.  You'll have to stomach a load of storyline first, before you get to the real gore-payoff, though.  The good heavy splatter action comes in the final reel, when the crimson hermaphrodite monster goes on its bloody attack.  Most memorable is the sequence where a Yakuza moll, high on Angel Rain, has to orally service the hermaphrodite beast as it changes sex before our very eyes! Just beyond belief.

The Entrails/Guts flicks were previously only attainable through the underground or small video market, but now the folks at Synapse Films have put these infamous splatter flicks onto DVD.  Entrails of a Beautiful Woman is shown uncut, and widescreen -- though the transfer is a bit dark in the nighttime scenes.  To fill out the package is a theatrical trailer, an interview with director Gaira, and an essay on Japanese censorship that explains why some of the more graphic scenes have a "haze" effect over the female genitalia.

Barry Meyer is a writer living in Jersey,  He likes his entrails medium rare.

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