Clevercell Very disappointing...

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Shaza123 A teenage kid sabotages his mums experiment, to create this ultimate painkiller drug. The drug transforms any feeling of pain that one might have, to pleasure! Only this one is real extreme. The more pain you should be feeling, the more pleasurable it is! This drug is tested on three subjects. A chick who loves food, a chick who loves herself, and a chick who loves a cactus. As these women go about their lives, our teenage scientist spies on them and discovers the results. And so do the girls. Feeling how awesome pain should be, they are tempted to go to extremes to feel the ultimate pleasurable experience....with cringe worthy results! So, the good!; The gore effects are excellent! I will praise this movie for these scenes. No cgi here, the prosthetic's look fantastic, especially that eye scene! The story. I actually thought it was an interesting plot. Lots of potential. The surreal elements. This movie looks nightmarish at times. It pulls this off very well. The bad; The pacing was terrible. This movie switches from being mindblowingly cool, to mindblowingly boring! It's so slow in parts it damn near put me to sleep! The acting. Not gonna lie, don't expect Oscar performances here. It also gets a bit confusing? Being surreal works for the film, but it gets a bit too hard to follow, at least for me. I was mainly waiting for the scene were the chick eats herself... oh wow, I'm messed up! So, we have a mixed basket here. Some very extreme/disturbing gore scenes, but it's also a bit boring and hard to follow. I'll give it a 7/10. Those effects were damn cool!

Scarecrow-88 My God, this movie's savage! A young prodigy, Eiji(Sadao Abe), has created an experimental painkiller which increases endorphins in the brain(..his dream was to bring eternal happiness, a goal paying homage to his eccentric scientist father who was in search of eternal joy into the "light")which reverses the natural order of the bodies reaction to pain. If one inflicts pain to themselves(..or others in Rika's case)it is an addictive pleasure that grows.Eiji's mother, Yuki(Masumi Nakao)is experimenting with a new drug on three voluntary test subjects hoping to develop a method of combating a potential pregnancy(..her desire is to tackle overpopulation on the earth). Eiji decides to test his serum by intermingling his drug with Yuki's with startling(..and quite unpleasant)results. The three girls react differently to the endorphin drug according to their own personal weakness. Misa Aika is an insomniac loner named Rika who has a "sleep installation device" which allows her to experience dream-like hallucinations. She discovers Eiji spying on her with his video recorder and starts up a friendship with the kid. Rika admits she hates people and once the drug kicks in she assaults her colleagues, the girls who also served as unwilling participants in Eiji and Yuki's hybrid concoction. Yumika Hayashi loves to eat(..it's all she thinks and talks about)soon cannibalizing herself! Mika Kirihara is a model obsessed with maintaining a perfect figure and beauty soon piercing her body with needles and other sharp items(..she reacts towards her body, because she "hates" herself, or that's my opinion).The violence is quite unnerving and grisly, to say the least. A hand is purposely placed in cooking grease and chewed into. The tip of a breast nipple is carved apart by a knife and eaten(..not to mention, an eyeball is gouged out by a fork, plucked from the socket, and fed upon slowly, the recipient savoring every bite). I won't even bother elaborating on vagina violence and it's meal to the one victimizing herself. We also witness a screwdriver used to penetrate through the flesh of an arm, and a stomach is opened up by a scalpel! There are even weirder moments in the film concerning Yuki's husband's fate and his "return." We see an entire body enter the hole of a victim's stomach, closing himself in! And, the symbolic use of a cactus(!) also has a part within the story of Rika. Rika suffered a "menstrual shock" which is said to have caused her sleeping disorder(..while also causing sensitive hearing which makes even the slightest sounds of bugs within a flowery garden path agonizing). She has a theory regarding the cactus and it's therapeutic effects on the one who "melds" with it.Strange experience; the gore-scenes are incredibly repulsive and explicit. Director Hisayasu Sato, who I am not familiar with, has created quite a profound character study using violence in a very atypical way to tell his story. Sato pulls no punches and takes no prisoners, but has a very methodical approach in regards to developing his story.

agoraphobicnosebleed A movie that is supposed to be 100% gore, 100% bloody and 100% extreme(as the Japan Shock DVD cover modestly states), is a movie I gotta see. I love gore movies, and with all the praise Naked Blood had been getting, well, I just had to check it out. Pity to say, I was disappointed.Hisayasu Sato is, of course, one of the biggest names in extreme Japanese cinema, responsible for movies such as Lolita: Vibrator Torture and Rape: For Real. Naked Blood is a step away from these mainly sex-driven movies, and even tries for some sort of plot. Kid scientist invents new painkiller, tests it on three girls who then start to experience pain as pleasure. With all the horrible results you can imagine.Now, the gore in the movie is definitely gory, although it's all very bearable. But where does this movie go wrong then? Imo, its problem lies in the fact that it's overly pretentious. A plot is one thing, but a Freudian hyper-bizarre moronic plot is another. The worst thing about the whole story though, is how generic it is - in all its bizarreness, it's never complex. Basically everything is predictable and, to be honest, boring. This movie has a runtime of 76 minutes, but it isn't even able to stay interesting.In the end, the overall feeling you get from this movie is a 'wtf' one. Whether that's because of the fact that you couldn't stand the gore, found the story immensely complicated, or, like me, found it a moderately enjoyable waste of a good 76 minutes, I don't know, but wtf it shall be.Leaves me to say that the old Super8 film Eiji's mother is watching is strangely intriguing, and possibly the highlight of this movie. Its faded colors and bright tone, combined with a mysterious 'plot', makes for a seriously interesting movie-in-a-movie. At this points, Hisayasu Sato displays a hidden genius. However, the rest of Naked Blood still is nothing but 100% mediocre.

Ed Cowell NAKED BLOOD is one of those movies that go way too far, showing the viewer things they don't want to see with no apology whatsoever. I had heard how extreme it was and wanted to see it. I was not disappointed, because there's an actual story happening here, not just mindless gore. Not that there's anything wrong with mindless gore...I just wasn'tprepared for the film to be so thought-provoking and beautiful.