MARUTA 1 : A Story of Human Guinea Pig

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As serial killer Lothar Schramm lies dying in his own blood, horrific memories of his miserable life of paranoia, self-harm and rejection flash before his eyes.

MARUTA 1 : A Story of Human Guinea Pig

A tragic look into the mind of a Borderline Personality Disorder psychopath. During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home. Unit has to shut down its base in Manchuria and all evidence that it existed must be destroyed. During the shut down,a soldier gets infected with some plague and ends up riding a train back home and somehow this means there is a "biological time bomb,aimed at the heart of the Japanese empire".

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The first "Man Behind the Sun" is incredibly disturbing and devastating film,on the other hand "Laboratory of the Devil" is just a rip-off of the original with some scenes of shocking violence added for good measure. The film is loaded with flashbacks of graphic experiments from the previous installments and offers literally nothing fresh or interesting. Unfortunately they didn't replay the scene of the guy having his innards squeezed out of him inside the pressure chamber. So if you want to watch this one for sickening violence and gore you'll be sorely disappointed. Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video.

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I'm making it sound much more entertaining than sitting through the movie is For instance, the English dubbing is so laughably bad it sounds like a parody of bad dubbing in an Asian film Your Kung Fu is lousy! It sounds like they have maybe 2, 3 guys tops doing all the characters. In one scene a bunch of scientists or commanders or whatever they're supposed to be are wearing surgical masks. One sounds completely normal while the other guy sounds like he's yelling into his cupped hands or through a saltine box.

Also, the characters, both heroes and bad guys, are amazingly stupid. At one point, the hero I think he was the hero, anyway helps with one 'test' that consists of prisoners being lined up and shot. Why they need to research what happens when they do this, I don't know, but anyway, the hero reluctantly fires at the commander's order, naturally killing them, then looks shocked and horrified at the results.

What did he think was going to happen? Oh, and this is after he watches the same thing being done 3 times in a row before this with no expression at all on his face. In another scene, the bad guys inject a slice of watermelon with what I assume is some sort of toxic substance. Then we see a guy being dragged, struggling, into frame by the other bad guys,: You can't make me eat it!

Was that supposed to scare me or disturb me? Why the hell didn't they just give it to him to eat and not tell him what it was?

In the first movie, during several scenes prisoners are tricked into the experiments, which is much more believable and has much more powerful and disturbing results. In the first movie, it had the effect of making you hate the villains even more. Here, you just think they're badly organized morons. Speaking of that, there's another scene where the prisoners are all in one room with huge numbers on their uniforms so large that the digits would be visible from another planet, and when they need them for experiments, a guard just walks in with a clipboard and calls out their numbers, and they call out "here!

For some reason that struck me as funny. Maybe I was just so bored I was trying to entertain myself by finding anything I could to jeer at. Not enough reasons to skip this? The makeup effects other than the real autopsy footage are really, really cheesy and unrealistic. Several workers are beaten and slapped for disobeying. I've seen more realistic punches thrown in Dolemite movies-seriously, we're talking the hand visibly not coming within six inches of the person's face and the person reacting like they were hit.

Terrible continuity, too-in one scene, a guy bites into a small corner of a guards earlobe while fighting, then we cut they always cut away instead of going to the trouble of showing any sort of effect to a shot of the guy with a huge chunk of flesh in his mouth.

The characters look so much alike I'm not saying this in a racist way -in the first movie, I had no problem, but here the screenwriting is so sloppy I didn't know who was who. OK, is that guy upset because they just killed Was that his roommate? The only positive things about this wretched excuse for an exploitation movie are that it leaves out the suspiciously realistic, unnecessary scenes of animal cruelty included in the first one, and that it has the guts to have a downbeat ending though again, it's just a really inept rip-off of the first movie. The first movie was so disturbing it made me lose sleep, this one just put me to sleep.

I repeat, do NOT waste your time with this especially if you've seen the first one. If you want to see something really shocking, upsetting, and disturbing, just rent the original. If you want to be bored, mad at yourself for wasting your money, and have your intelligence insulted, then rent this one. I heard that the third one is the worst in the series-boy, I don't even want to think about that.

More guts, no glory, no story. Laboratory of the Devil" is one of the most worthless films I have ever had the displeasure of seeing. Godfrey Ho who is incorrectly listed as being an alias for T. Mous managed to take Mous' disturbingly realistic film which was originally intended to be a documentary and ended up falling somewhere in between docudrama and exploitation stomach turner and completely flush out every element that made "Man Behind the Sun" so hard to view.

What's worse is that Ho doesn't even make a weak attempt at a plot. Instead he literally copies Mous' work word for word only stopping to pump up the amount of blood, torn flesh, innards, and severed limbs. Ho never treats his victims with honor, rather he goes out of his way to completely exploit the unwatchable torture and mass executions these innocent prisoners of war endured.

Though, the most grueling ordeal is having to sit through a film that is based on real documentations of Camp , which was set up in Harbin, China by the Japanese during World War II. Inside Camp 's Nazi-like interior captured Chinese, Koreans, and Russians were subjected to inhuman biological warfare testing. In the end out of 3, men, women, children, and infant prisoners not one was left alive and some , more Chinese died from neighboring areas when the camp was imploded and the Black Plague which was being experimented with was unleashed. Godfrey Ho should live in shame.

I honestly don't understand how someone could like Men Behind the Sun but not like this film. Although inferior in some ways, it is extremely devastating.

We are treated to brutal extended autopsy, Arms being stripped of flesh,an autopsy on a living guy that looks suspiciously real they remove his heart as it beats and when they cut him open it bleeds for real, exuding out of the fat and tissue layers decapitation, dismemberment and more. I have read reviews for Guinea Pig: This flick has more realistic slaughter than the first Guinea Pig. This film uses real corpses for all the effects and the living autopsy scene is brutal. Don't believe the bad reviews. This movie is sick and deserves more credit.

It does include all the gore and nastiness of the original film, but only because it's pretty much a scene-for-scene recreation of it. It is years after the war has ended and the American government have called together all the surviving doctors from Unit to offer them large amounts of money for them to continue their research into biological weapons. From here on out the rest of the film is told via flashbacks concerning the activities of Unit during the war.

This time we see the atrocities through the eyes of a young soldier who has been drafted and forced to leave his young wife behind to wait for his return. Several workers are beaten and slapped for disobeying. I've seen more realistic punches thrown in Dolemite movies-seriously, we're talking the hand visibly not coming within six inches of the person's face and the person reacting like they were hit. Terrible continuity, too-in one scene, a guy bites into a small corner of a guards earlobe while fighting, then we cut they always cut away instead of going to the trouble of showing any sort of effect to a shot of the guy with a huge chunk of flesh in his mouth.

The characters look so much alike I'm not saying this in a racist way -in the first movie, I had no problem, but here the screenwriting is so sloppy I didn't know who was who. OK, is that guy upset because they just killed Was that his roommate? The only positive things about this wretched excuse for an exploitation movie are that it leaves out the suspiciously realistic, unnecessary scenes of animal cruelty included in the first one, and that it has the guts to have a downbeat ending though again, it's just a really inept rip-off of the first movie.

The first movie was so disturbing it made me lose sleep, this one just put me to sleep. I repeat, do NOT waste your time with this especially if you've seen the first one. If you want to see something really shocking, upsetting, and disturbing, just rent the original.

If you want to be bored, mad at yourself for wasting your money, and have your intelligence insulted, then rent this one. I heard that the third one is the worst in the series-boy, I don't even want to think about that. More guts, no glory, no story. Laboratory of the Devil" is one of the most worthless films I have ever had the displeasure of seeing.

Godfrey Ho who is incorrectly listed as being an alias for T. Mous managed to take Mous' disturbingly realistic film which was originally intended to be a documentary and ended up falling somewhere in between docudrama and exploitation stomach turner and completely flush out every element that made "Man Behind the Sun" so hard to view.

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What's worse is that Ho doesn't even make a weak attempt at a plot. Instead he literally copies Mous' work word for word only stopping to pump up the amount of blood, torn flesh, innards, and severed limbs.

Ho never treats his victims with honor, rather he goes out of his way to completely exploit the unwatchable torture and mass executions these innocent prisoners of war endured. Though, the most grueling ordeal is having to sit through a film that is based on real documentations of Camp , which was set up in Harbin, China by the Japanese during World War II. Inside Camp 's Nazi-like interior captured Chinese, Koreans, and Russians were subjected to inhuman biological warfare testing.

In the end out of 3, men, women, children, and infant prisoners not one was left alive and some , more Chinese died from neighboring areas when the camp was imploded and the Black Plague which was being experimented with was unleashed. Godfrey Ho should live in shame. I honestly don't understand how someone could like Men Behind the Sun but not like this film.

Although inferior in some ways, it is extremely devastating. We are treated to brutal extended autopsy, Arms being stripped of flesh,an autopsy on a living guy that looks suspiciously real they remove his heart as it beats and when they cut him open it bleeds for real, exuding out of the fat and tissue layers decapitation, dismemberment and more. I have read reviews for Guinea Pig: This flick has more realistic slaughter than the first Guinea Pig. This film uses real corpses for all the effects and the living autopsy scene is brutal. Don't believe the bad reviews.

This movie is sick and deserves more credit. It does include all the gore and nastiness of the original film, but only because it's pretty much a scene-for-scene recreation of it. It is years after the war has ended and the American government have called together all the surviving doctors from Unit to offer them large amounts of money for them to continue their research into biological weapons. From here on out the rest of the film is told via flashbacks concerning the activities of Unit during the war.

This time we see the atrocities through the eyes of a young soldier who has been drafted and forced to leave his young wife behind to wait for his return. As he witnesses the treatment of the Chinese and the "experiments'' being carried out, he feels remorse at the crimes of his fellow countrymen and ultimately rebels. The only major difference here is in the last half hour where the film deteriorates into a melodramatic action flick with Kung-fu and pointless heroics.

Due to being pretty much a straight-up exploitation film, Laboratory of the Devil looses the impact of its predecessor. It has goofy "comic relief'' scenes, some nudity, the aforementioned action sequences and an extremely trashy synth score, all of which combine to make it rather hard to take seriously. All things considered though, its not an awful film and if I hadn't recently seen the first MBTS I probably would have dug it a lot more.

There's plenty of gore and torture so I'd recommend it to all you rabid gorehound's out there, but if you're looking for a sequel as powerful and shocking as Men Behind the Sun, avoid or check out the excellent Black Sun: EVOL 18 October That's not to say that I hated the film - on the contrary, I found it relatively enjoyable, it's just nothing you haven't seen if you've seen the original.

Those that hate this film are justified. The acting is often wooden, the English dubbing as there's no subtitle option is laughable, there are a few moments of "humor" injected into the film that are completely unnecessary, etc As to the good points, though the film is every bit as exploitive as MBTS if not moreso A couple of real autopsy scenes one "live" one that looks suspectly authentic and a few of the original tortures from MBTS are recreated in this film. I definitely DO NOT recommend watching the original and then watching this one back-to-back - it's essentially much like watching the same film twice and I'm sure will be tedious to the viewer.

Listen to Rusty,down there Beast-5 23 May He nailed this movie right on the head I agree with everything he says. I found this movie at the Cleveland Public Library's audiovisual department,and being a lover of foreign horror films,I had to see it. I wound up fast-forwarding past all the talking and watching the nasty bits,which are laughable beyond belief. Of course,if you're not a nutcase like me,this movie may sicken you,but the special effects aren't quite special enough to even do that This is more a remake than a sequel, with the only difference is that we don't see the cadet's "point of view".

Men Behind the Sun II is the most violent and nasty at least in my opinion of the whole Man Behind the sun Quadrilogy, it includes the most disgusting autopsy scene ever filmed. The special effects are realistic, shocking and gross. The English dub is cheesy.

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