Grindhouse (warning: not for anyone with a sense of decency or humanity)

As my growing love of the grindhouse genre of moviedom grows, so does my exposure to the seedy underpinnings of society. Cases and concepts such as the snuff film have been brought very much into focus and the "car wreck effect" has been superseded by a much more malicious syndrome of "deviant fever." I can't bloody stop researching the vile, detestable natures of man. Much of my realization is centered on the fact that a strong portion of what has been conceived and produced has been so outside of the U.S. And here I thought we were the sickest fucks around. take the Japanese for example. Mine eyes have lain upon a concept that unsettles even me, if not for a moment. for those with fortitude, will and the capability of handling concepts so far beyond macabre or pornographic that they would be extraterrestrial in origin, read on, otherwise, watch kittens play with a sock on youtube. Here we go:

While perusing encyclopedia drammatica, one of the greatest sources of untapped entertainment, I accidentally clicked a link to the article "skull fuck." Now I know, you may be wondering what I was reading that entailed the combination of the words skull and fuck, but in my defense, it was the article on Bill O'Reilly, and really that should have skull fuck written all over it. that aside, it brought me to the article on " Ero Guro," otherwise known simply as "Guro." Before I could even click the back button, the image of a naked woman being decapitated flashed on my screen with the caption "the single most erotic image ever created." For those of you unaware, encyclopedia drammatica is the anarchist's wikipedia. Anyone and everyone can literally put whatever they want there in regards to the topic at hand. Having just spent an hour and a half reading on snuff films, my deviancy fever was at a boiling point so I ventured on. Suffice to say the article brought the arctic hands of reality to my flushed state. A surgeon general's warning for those curious, the mind cannot undo what has been done. The image of a little boy picking up his sister's guillotined head then practicing fellatio on aforementioned severed skull put me in a stupor. I can't unsee that. The deed is done. At that point I decided it would be best if I attempted to re-align my karma and cleanse myself of that hideous beast. The damage was deep. I will never be able to look at japan the same again and this is after finding out they have vending machines for used schoolgirl panties. If you think I'm joking, snopes it.
Europeans seems to want to go into a different direction. While looking up grindhouse fair for my viewing pleasure, I came across Cannibal Holocaust for the second time in my life. The first was a discussion with me hermano on truly frightening movies, mentioned in the same sentence as August Underground Mordum. For those less familiar, it is an Italian faux-documentary on a cannibalistic tribe and is known both for the realistic death scenes (see: real) of various animals as well as a pivotal scene involving a woman impaled and presented outside of the village, the spike protruding from her mouth, creating the image of a vertical roast. Outstanding. It is a wonderful piece of filmography, comparable to Gone With the Wind, the Casablanca for cannibals if you will. Of course I could scour the globe tying some form of taboo-destroying production to its native environment, but, at least for today I've settled on ending in Germany.
If you're like me, when you see the phrase "based on a true story," you're curious about its origins because man is far more fearful in reality than fantasy. Well the movie in question is titled "Cannibal." You can imagine its premise. I discovered it whilst perusing netflix while conversing with Robin. To surmise it, a gent puts out an add asking for aid in helping his dilemma. He wants to eat people. A man answers said add and allows the first fellow to consume him. Based on a true story. I looked into the real story. A man named Armin Meiwes really did place an add stating the following: "looking for a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed." The person responding to the add had a history of obsession with mutilation (to be expected) and was involved with the local male prostitution ring. I will not go into the details of the situation (I'd rather absolve them from my own mind anyway) but rather bring to point the aftermath of the incident. Mr Meiwes was arrested for manslaughter, but it begs the question: If a man accepts being eaten and does so voluntarily, is it a crime? A quandary to be true and I don't believe there are any stare decisis to help guide the courts to such a decision. Another complication brought to the incident was the fact that Germany had no pre-existing laws banning cannibalism (not that there was a demand for such). Curious side note, Mr. Meiwes is now a vegetarian in prison. He himself approximated about 800 cannibals in Germany. Given Germany is about the size of Montana, it begs the question: How many are on our own terrain?