The horror movie dubbed ‘worse than Human Centipede’ reported to authorities amid fears actors had really been killed
A JAPANESE horror film, which has been dubbed “worse than Human Centipede,” was reported to the authorities by a Hollywood star after they feared the movies’ actors had been killed while making it.
One movie in a Japanese horror film franchise from the 1980s, collectively titled Guinea Pig, is so horrifying and realistic that it left A-Lister Charlie Sheen fearing it was a real snuff film.
The Human Centipede is one of the most gruesome horror films out there, but there’s a movie (or movie franchise) out there that has it beat, at least according to the Two and a Half Men star.
The first instalment of the Guinea Pig movie series, Devil’s Experiment, was released in 1985. It features horrific scenes of torture after a group of men kidnap a young woman and pour maggots on her, poke a needle through her eye and burn with hot oil.
Guinea Pig is based on the manga by Hideshi Hino and is continued in the second film, Flower of Flesh and Blood.
However, the movies were found to be too graphic by Japanese boards of investigation and they were pulled from the market.
Charlie, 58, still managed to get his hands on Flower of Flesh and Blood though. It was gifted to him by film critic Chris Gore in 1991, but when the Hollywood star laid eyes on it, he was sure it actually portrayed scenes of a real murder.
The Guinea Pig sequel follows a man dressed as a samurai who abducts a woman and dismembers her to add her body parts to his grisly collection.
Charlie immediately reported the movie to the FBI, who in turn opened an investigation into the team behind Guinea Pig 2.
But, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the creative team released a fortuitously timed documentary called Guinea Pig Two: The Making of Guinea Pig One which showed that it was all gore, special effects, and sleight of hand. After that, the investigation was dropped and the Guinea Pig franchise continued.
All in all, there are six films and two documentaries in the franchise.
The early films are believed to have inspired the actions of Japanese serial killer, Tsutomu Miyazaki, also known as the Otaku murderer.
Before he was executed in 2008, Miyazaki abducted and murdered four young girls who were all under the age of seven. He was a cannibal who described his killings as an “act of benevolence.”
He also preserved parts of his victims as trophies and taunted their families after they were gone.
Miyazaki was eventually arrested in 1989 after attempting to molest a young girl in a park. At the time of his arrest, hundreds of horror films were found in his possession, including Devil’s Experiment.