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Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies is set in Japan & tells the story of an office worker named Hideshi (Masahiro Satô) who becomes depressed with his boring life, after not turning up for work for four straight days not one person from the office bother's to call him. Hideshi decides to kill himself, he picks up a knife & cuts deeply into his wrist but doesn't die & feels no pain. Hideshi quickly realises that he cannot die, Hideshi tries to kill himself but strangulation & even cuts his own throat but he continues to live. Hideshi phones his work mate & invites him round to his place in order to give him the fright of his life...

This Japanese production was directed by Masayuki Kusumi & is the third entry in the notorious Guinea Pig series of films, a rather silly & pointless little tale Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies is nothing special although it is different. A sort of demented sitcom with added gore nothing here makes any sense or is explained, why Hideshi cannot die is a mystery while his motives for chopping himself up once he discovers that he cannot die are also none existent. At a brisk forty minutes long (with three minutes of those counting for the closing credits) at least it's short & moves along quickly enough but there';s little here to engage the viewer apart from it's bizarre central concept which had potential but is wasted on a silly script. This doesn't really even feel like a proper film to be honest, just a collection of incidents that don't add up to anything. There are also scenes that bookend Guinea Pig 3: he Never Dies featuring an American scientist who rambles on about nothing in particular. After the first two brutal Guinea Pig films this is the direction the rest of the series went in, sloppy fake looking gore centered around a basic story.

Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies features a fair bit of gore during it's duration but none of it is particularly convincing or as brutal or harrowing as the earlier Guinea Pig films. Hidesh cuts deep into his wrist, he impales a pen through his arm complete with comedy sound effect, cuts his own hand off, slits his throat, cuts into his stomach & pulls his insides out & ends up as a decapitated head on a table. The special effects vary, the wrist slitting is quite impressive but the other effects are less so. Certainly not scary this tries to be extreme & nasty & is once or twice but overall I was quite unmoved while watching it.

Filmed in Japan in Japanese you will have to sit through a subtitled version, not that the story makes any sense anyway & you could probably watch this without subtitles & still follow it easily enough. This looks really cheap, it looks like it was shot on an 80's camcorder & has a horribly flat & tinny video look to it. This is one ugly looking thing. The end credits feature a few scenes from the film played in reverse & then an outtake featuring the three main leads goofing around in front of the camera.

Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies is an oddball curiosity, a relic from another country & time that is unique if nothing else. I can't say I loved it but at least it's short & has a few gory moments. A bit of a disappointment really though if I'm honest.

This is the third "Guinea Pig" movie and if you read this review, you have probably already seen the first two films. Still, this one is a bit different. There is no real sexual component in there. In films 1 and 2, the protagonists were aroused for what they did to helpless girls and so were some people watching these perhaps. However, it's finally about equality here. A man tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend left him for another man. However, it's not working out as he realizes he is immortal. So what does he do. He invites the guy who took his girl from him and gives him the shock of a lifetime when he starts ripping out his organs with the other guy watching. This may sound pretty cruel, but there is definitely a comedic aspect to this movie, something the first two films also lacked. If that is a good thing, you have to decide for yourself. There was something unique though to the ending when he only has his head left for him and everything was torn apart and he was still laughing and going completely nuts. This film really does not have any great production values, but it could turn out as a guilty pleasure. It was made almost 30 years ago already and runs for roughly 40 minutes. The only somewhat interesting factor that was not comedy was for me the question of guilt in this one. Is the main character guilty of anything? He actually did try to commit suicide so he won't cause any harm to others. But he was not allowed to. Does that make him guilty of what he does to the other man. Then there is of course the argument of insanity and the mitigating factors that the other guy took his girl from him and that he also committed fraud at the office where he works. In any case, this should not be taken as a serious drama. the only way to somewhat enjoy it is as a comedy slasher film. There is certainly something ironic to the ending with the talking head lying around and all the girl can think of is how she has to clean the place from all the blood and guts. Neither the lead actor nor the director of this film have worked on many other projects in the past and maybe that's a good thing. All in all, it's not a good movie and I cannot recommend it.

This third installment in the Guinea Pig cycle prostitutes its way to wider acceptability with humor.

Trouble is, the humor is so juvenile it's tedious.

A salaryman decides to off himself. He cuts off his own hand, rips out his innards and saws through his throat with a long knife.

Unfortunately (for him), these gory acts don't kill him...they only make him stronger and more determined to find other ways of suiciding.

Considering the fact that these productions are shot on video (which is a very harsh, unforgiving medium), the special make-up effects are pretty amazing. If they had been filmed and lit more low key, they'd be almost perfect.

HE NEVER DIES becomes even sillier when our hero's best buddy and girlfriend turn up.

Definitely miles removed from the mean-spirited hijinks of the previous two installments, this is mildly amusing if you shuttle from gore scene to gore scene.

Still, you have to admire the Japanese for their balls in producing material like this.

The guinea pig series, notorious worldwide for its extreme gore, in my opinion found its comedic footing with the second movie, "Flower Of Flesh And Blood", by including an extremely over exaggerated villain.

But, this movie, "He Never Dies" was a solid comedy throughout.

The basic premise is this : A working class man is ignored at work, is extremely lonely, and just gives up. He quits. But nobody notices he's gone. No calls on his phone. So, naturally, he becomes suicidally depressed.

First, he tries to slit his wrist. But, he doesn't die. So, he continues to cut deeper, but still... He doesn't die. He cuts so deep that his hand comes clean off but still, he doesn't die. But of course, the clue is in the name with this one.

What follows is a brutally gory, but heavily comedic movie, climaxing with disembowelment and finally a beheading.

This movie is definitely not for the squeamish or faint of heart, but I'd have to say that out of the first three movies, this one is the easiest to stomach.

So, if you're a fan of splatter movies, gorefests, et c and you want something to have a laugh with, I highly reccomend this movie.