“Guinea Pig: Devil’s Experiment” is an almost impossible film to review because it defies any conventional structure. It’s not so much a film but a chance to show off some special effects work and try to make you feel as though you’re watching an authentic snuff film. While the violence is certainly no more outrageous than that featured in films such as “Cannibal Holocaust”, this is far more monotonous.

We start with an opening crawl; it is clearly intended to make you feel like you’re watching something you really shouldn’t be. A young Japanese woman is kidnapped, beaten and tortured mercilessly by three men. They hit her and they hit her and even put a sharp piece of metal through her eye. The whole thing is very dark and hard to see what’s going on. It’s just non-stop brutality, watching a woman being tortured in increasingly depraved ways.

There are no real characters. There is a woman and there are three men but we no virtually nothing about any of them. We just see the men inflict unspeakable pain on the woman. The real star is not any of the cast members but the special effects. They are impressive but they also are never fully convincing.

If you are somebody intending to make special effects for horror films then maybe this would be a somewhat interesting film to check out. For anybody else, this is just a pointless exercise in total depravity. It certainly does try to make you feel like you’re watching an actual snuff film but considering the ways in which you are probably going to find a way to watch this, you’ll know it’s just a fake. You could only really be tricked if you had never heard of it and somebody handed you an unmarked tape with this on.