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. Most of the sex scenes are fogged, due to

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Plot

A group of photographers and their models go to a forest retreat. They engage in S&M play and much softcore sex. Eventually they get picked off one-by-one by a filth-covered "demon" with an unnaturally large

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. In the end, all the film crews perish and only the main actress, Rei, survives. Nevertheless, she becomes heavily pregnant with the demon’s child. Rei looks over the sea and wonders what will come out of her womb. She decides that she is actually looking forward to see it just before the surrounding rock formations around her bust into flame.

Cast

* Saeko Kizuki as Rei * Naomi Hagio as Kazuyo * Megumi Kawashima as Kei * Osamu Tsuruoka as Itomura * Daiki Katô as Asaoka * Hideki Takahashi as Tachikawa * Kazuhiko Goda as murderer

Production

During the 1980s,

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-makers had begun adding increasing amounts of sexuality into their movies. Working in the ''

'' genre, director Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu decided to inject elements of horror into these softcore pornographic productions. The film became a box-office success.

Release

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first on the Japan Shock label in

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format, and then by

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. The Synapse release was a restored, widescreen version.

Critical reception

In his ''Asia Shock; Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand'', Patrick Galloway says that Komizu's mix of sex and horror works as a film. He describes the film as "essentially one long fuck-fest interspersed with the occasional impaling, hanging or beheading..." and concludes: "It's all rather sordid and there's a definite misanthropy to the film reminiscent of

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('' Diabolique''), but somehow the elements click into place, making for an uncomfortable-yet-can't-look-away film experience".

Sequel

One of a series of three by director Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu, the other two were the considerably more graphic and

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''Entrails of a Beautiful Woman'' (1986), as well as ''Female Inquisitor'' (

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