Speaking of Japan, I believe that everyone is no stranger, after all, island movies are famous in the world, and perhaps many people still have a few T island movies in their hard disks.
Today we're going to talk about a Japanese horror film called The Mermaid of the Sewers.
Mermaid stills
The Mermaid of the Sewers is a film directed by Hino Sunrise Anderson, starring Masaru Somei, Shigeru Saiki, Masami Kumoto, and Toshigetsu, the fourth part of the Japanese underground experimental film Guinea Pig Series, based on the marvel manga of the same type created by director Hino Sunrise, starring Makoto Somei, Shigeru Saiki, and Masami Kumoto. The film indicts the story of the industrial age, under the unbridled defilement and trampling of nature by mankind, the clear river has become a dirty sewer, and the beautiful, dreamy mermaid has become ugly and died tragically due to the virus.
The male protagonist is painting
The story tells of a depressed painter who often goes to the sewers to look for materials, until one day he actually meets a mermaid he once saw in the sewers.
The mermaid is very beautiful and inspired him,
He had always wanted to paint a portrait of the mermaid, and finally got what he wanted. But the mermaid was sick and her abdomen was somewhat ulcerated, so he quickly took the mermaid home and placed her in the bathtub.
The mermaid's disease could not be suppressed even by drugs, and soon the mermaid's whole body grew with tumors and flowed out of colorful pigments.
After that, maggots and internal organs began to flow out, and the painter reflected everything on the paper in great detail, until the mermaid died, the painter finally collapsed, he dismembered the mermaid and removed a dead baby from the abdomen.
Still
The shots and effects of this film did not use post-production special effects processing, but all relied on makeup technology and various props.
In the film, the scene of the mermaid's skin decaying is performed by the actor wearing a special rubber holster that imitates the rotten skin, and some of the more unique and alternative close-up shots are directly filmed against the mold rather than the actor, and the maggots crawling out of the mermaid's body are actually sand silkworms that are common in the market, and the colorful pus flowing from the mermaid pustules use a bunch of colorful dyes.
Mermaid picture
There are many scenes in the film that use a combination of beauty and ugliness to enhance the contrasting satire, such as:
The river is clear and vibrant, but the river in the film has become a dirty sewer full of death due to pollution.
Babies and cats are angry and agile things, but the baby and cat in the film are long dead and lying silently in the dirty sewers;
Only one of The Mermaids in the Sewers has been handed down, but it has been remembered for half a century; her personality is not pleasing, but it has caused countless people to cry for her; she has long since disappeared from the public, but there are still people who worship her as a goddess, a sad and sighing prototype of the "mermaid".
Mari Somei
A few stills were found on the Internet, but because the picture was too disgusting, it was not put up, if you want to know how disgusting, you can go to the Internet to search for it (it is best not to, otherwise you may not be able to eat).