Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Niku Daruma DVDRip (1998)


a.k.a. TUMBLING DOLL OF FLESH

Released by underground AV "specialist fetish" production house Aroma Planning on VHS in 1998, directed by notorious AV-horror director Tamakichi 'Anal' Anaru, and much in the same vein as the first two highly reviled Guinea Pig titles, Devil's Experiment and Flower of Flesh and Blood, Niku Daruma (aka Tumbling Doll of Flesh, aka Psycho: The Snuff Reels) is, without a doubt, harder-core and harsher than both of those two movies combined: only one step up from a real snuff inasmuch as the killing and mutilation are the only parts that aren't real. The rest of the movie, though, camerawork included, looks imaginably authentic, so much so that it would almost surely induce a definite air of claustrophobia and pit-of-the-stomach dread in any viewer not totally desensitised to this kind of genre piece.

For a start, the footage we are watching is fairly convincing-looking. The videotape is grainy and third-generation, as these titles often are (although it definitely looks much cleaner than Muzan E), and much of it has the look of having been shot on a hand-held camcorder, which it probably was. However, this is no fake snuff title per se: even the introductory sequence has an incidental soundtrack and flashbacks, to once again reassure us - or lull us into a false sense of security - that this is merely entertainment, not real after all. It's almost as though Tamakichi is attempting a softly-softly approach, before slamming the viewer in the face with a sledgehammer of extreme, brutal imagery shot in about as authentic a way as possible. This is a device he employs again later on in the piece, when the filming of what seems like a perfectly ordinary porn flick turns unbearably nasty by degrees.

In addition to this, we are mostly watching the horror unfold through the eyes of the two present cameramen, who shoot everything that happens on either film or camcorder, from the very mundane (such as a brief trip by the porn actress to buy cookies in a convenience shop) to the very horrific. Like various sequences in other such titles, Muzan E and some sequences from Kichiku dai enkai springing to mind, the notion of the viewer voyeuristically participating by proxy in these vile acts, or even standing helplessly by, is unnerving beyond belief.

http://rapidshare.com/files/123253880/Niku_Daruma.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/123255377/Niku_Daruma.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/123256747/Niku_Daruma.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/123258252/Niku_Daruma.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/123259802/Niku_Daruma.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/123261474/Niku_Daruma.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/123263013/Niku_Daruma.part7.rar