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Just a little more to add on this -
There is still a strong undercurrent in some horror film fans about all exploitation films having "point", being "well done" and with a neat and tidy story to offer the viewer.
However these aspects are add odds with true exploitation.
Indeed, the reactions of some gore/horror fans to the most basic and unpretentious of exploitative cinema is often derision... perhaps it is because the likes of the GUINEA PIG films are uncompromising and leave little to celebrate?
Sometimes an audacious, simple and apparently meaningless movie is what it takes to give food for thought to those amature fanboy filmmakers about to craft their latest cliched, multi-layered and oh-so-meaningful zombie/slasher/vampire piece of art. Or if it isn't, then it bloody should be.
To suggest that if one enjoys viewing films like GUINEA PIG then one must similarly "enjoy" the contents of real/fake death film sounds like a comment from an outraged Christian group or similar rather than a liberated horror fan.
I'll watch them all, and judge each on its own merits.
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