Very bizarre film about a girl talking to her cactus through a virtual reality headset and killing people after being given a drug. Surreal, hilarious, and disturbing at times, this film takes a long time to get to the really good stuff, but it's worth it. Especially love the scene of the girl eating her own nipple! Great music and a perfect atmosphere coupled with typically wonderful Japanese acting. Honestly, the film doesn't actually make any conventional sense whatsoever, though it's probably not supposed to. Also, the film isn't actually that gory or shocking if you've seen stuff like Dead Alive, Premutors, Riki-Oh, and others. However, if you just want a bizarre movie that takes itself way too seriously, then this is definitely something to watch. You may not love it as much as I did but I personally thought it was somewhat brilliant. Definitely worth at least one watch if you've already managed to surf on here and read this review...

Despite the hard-core gore scenes that many people talk about in this film, NAKED BLOOD is a surprisingly intelligent entry in the Japanese "extreme gore" genre.Eiji is a young science prodigy who develops a drug he calls MY SON, that stimulates endorphins in the body so that pain is diminished, and in some cases can even become pleasurable. Eiji's mother is also a scientist who is experimenting with contraceptive drugs on three young women. Eiji decides to test his serum by spiking the drugs that his mother is experimenting with. The three women are unknowingly given the MY SON along with the contraceptive drugs, and Eiji begins to observe the women to see what the effects are. Over the course of the film, we find that one of the women is obsessed with food, another with her appearance, and the third is kinda a weirdo with extreme insomnia. The drug slowly begins to have profound effects on the first two women...The one obsessed with food begins to experience pleasure from eating her own body parts, including her finger, labia, nipple and eyeball (all in extremely graphic and awesome detail)...The appearance lady becomes obsessed with piercing herself (also in graphic detail, but not quite as cool as the eat-herself-lady)...and at first, the insomniac doesn't appear to have any real symptoms. When she finally does, this is where NAKED BLOOD really takes off in terms of story-line...I personally think NAKED BLOOD is a great film for what it is. The graphic gore scenes are very rough, but honestly make up only a fraction of the film's running time. This film intelligently deals with subject matter such as pleasure vs. pain, obsession, ambition, betrayal and heredity. I have to say I was expecting an all-out bloodbath (which is usually all I want to see from these types of films...) but was very pleasantly surprised to see a real "movie" amidst the bloodshed. Very highly recommended, but only for those that can handle this new wave of Japanese splatter. 9/10

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.

A teen scientist spikes the medicine his mother is testing on young woman and the result is gruesome death, for the drug turns pain into the highest pleasure and it doesn't take a clever mind what happens next.This is a slow movie that takes a while to get going. The drug takes a while to react, and the once it does the women infected by it self-mutilate horribly. Even though the effects are not the best at times this is a profoundly disturbing film with several images that will haunt you long after the film.Despite the gore, there appears to be a point about medicine and research and pain and pleasure, but the slowness and the grossness over whelm the film. In a twisted way I'm glad I saw it, but I don't need to see it again.5 out of 10 ---- but if you can't stand blood stay miles away from this film.