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Ginî piggu 2: Chiniku no hana (1985)
Devil's Advocate
Flowers of Flesh and Blood is not quite as sadistic as everyone would have you believe.
For one thing the 'samurai' doesn't just mercilessly torture his victim, but first drugs her, not so that she feels nothing, but so that she will 'feel only ecstacy'. It is apparently vital to the 'blossoming' of the flower of flesh and blood that the victim truly enjoy the experience. The victim must positively appreciate their mutilation and dismemberment.
The whole structure of the movie is more artsy than horror too, what with the coloured lights and haiku for each new implement of butchery.
Although the effects are great, this is plodding and nowhere near as entertaining as He Never Dies.
L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975)
Have I seen the same movie?
My copy is titled Exorcism and is absolutely great. There's naked girls chained upside down getting whipped and covered in sacrificial blood and some demented ex-priest stabbing people with at least one scene of guts or a heart or something removed from what was probably a dead pig.
I think maybe this movie should be viewed as a comedy, its certainly believable that it was intended as such.