This is a very interesting movie and a little hard to review. It starts out as a teen scientist develops a brain altering drug that is supposed to cure pain. His Mother is a research scientist conducting a research project with three women concerning birth control. Her Son slips some of his drug into his Mother's experiment to test it out, and then watches especially one of the patients to see what happens. This evolves rather slowly at first as we watch subtle changes in the three women. One is obsessed with food, another with her appearance, and the one he follows around is the strange one. She never sleeps and spends much of time with a virtual machine like thing connected to a cactus. Yes, a cactus. What happens soon, is the drug starts doing its thing and two of the women start exhibiting bizarre behavior, but not the cactus lady. The food lady becomes obsessed with her own body, and basically starts eating her own body parts. Oh yea, this is WAY over the top and the gore just keeps a coming once it starts. The second lady becomes obsessed with pain, and begins sticking all types of piercings into her body. It seems the drug does do away with pain, but causes an addiction where as the lady has a compulsion for more and more self-inflicted pain. The cactus lady is not showing much of any changes, but her world is pretty bizarre regardless of the drug. This becomes pretty confusing as dream sequences pop out of nowhere and seem to put a different spin on everything that has been going on. Did the other two women die from the drug, or did the cactus lady actually kill them? To be honest, I don't have a clue, and that would be a spoiler anyway if I did. Disturbing, yes, very very disturbing. Confusing? Not at first, but the dream sequences bring in a new element that is a little difficult to figure out. This has some spectacular gore, mainly with the food lady that eats herself. I've never seen anything like that in my life, and that alone puts this movie in a class by itself. This movie also has a Gozu (ending) type scene that is absolutely incredible. Disturbing, surreal, ultra-gory, those are all good descriptions of this fascinating movie. This one is for hardcore gorehounds.
Review of Naked Blood
