A corporation is funding psychic experiments on human guinea pigs who are outfitted in rubber suits, given the drug ether and bombarded with intense sound and ‘Digital Direct Drive’. Though successful in unleashing psychic powers the experiments are graphically fatal for the test subjects. The corporation attempts to shut down the experiments and in desperation two researchers experiment on a third researcher, leading to all kinds of hard to follow chaos. The film is undoubtedly style over substance with no emotional involvement in characters. It’s somewhat like a Japanese cyberpunk version of Eraserhead with parallels in the body horror of David Cronenberg. Shot in Black and White, some of the visuals are pretty decent, including projectile vomiting, blood spray, and an overused rotating eyeball but the low budget is noticeable. It could have made a nice Nine Inch Nails music video circa Happiness in Slavery but it is never as striking as films like Begotten or the films clear influence Tetsuo and as a 90 minute film it gets tiresome rather quickly. The acting is uniformly awful and the amount of screaming in the film gets rather annoying. The industrial noise soundtrack by Tanizaki Tetora is undoubtedly the best thing about the film. The DVD from Unearthed films also includes the pathetic and pointless short film Gerorisuto and some awesome trailers.
2.5/5
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