The Last Theater

Flower of Flesh and Blood is a Japanese splatter movie from 1985, and it has become infamous not just for its gory content, but also for its near-legendary status around the world.

Show Notes

The Guinea Pig series is a set of movies that has become famous, but the second film, Flower of Flesh and Blood, stands above all the rest. It's a movie that has a lot of blood and gore, but there's so much more to it than that. It's an artistic splatter movie that achieves a status reached by few movies of its genre. Find out why the movie works so well, and how its associations with real-life situations caused it to become one of the most infamous movies to ever come from Japan.

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Total Run Time: 29:56

Theme music: “Rising Game” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Join chris and Joey as they explore the dark, forgotten side of film. From horror and exploitation, to b-movies, cult, trash cinema, and everything in-between, The Last Theater shows how even the movies mainstream audiences might find worthless have value. With reviews and discussions covering films and topics within the realm of the more extreme and often dismissed side of cinema, chris and Joey illuminate the vital role these types of films play in the larger pantheon of movie history.

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