The story line makes no sense. The movie is sick and disgusting. It doesn't make sense to watch this movie; I don't know why I did though :(It is not exactly a horror movie. Nothing in this movie will actually scare you. It is like watching a sick psychopath massacre innocent people.I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.This movie made me realize that even Japanese people are into such kinds of useless things; I always assumed Japanese have a rich culture and all that.

I first saw this movie about a year ago. The version I had back then was slightly blurry and lacked subtitles so, in essence, a silent horror movie. I thought at the time that the movie was "just" okay. I didn't bother looking for the subtitles online because I figured, "Eh, what could they be talking about? I'm sure it's pretty standard based on what was on screen." Wrong!The dialog was essential to the movie. The doctor, with his stoic presentation, was an absolute mind f*ck to those two lovebirds. It gave the film much more layers than I'd thought.As a student of extreme human behavior I try to understand what motivates people to do the things they do - go to war, torture people, burn down villages, convince one group of people that another group is worthless and annihilate them, genocide is in their best interest, etc. On one level it sucks that the innocent lovers were randomly chosen to be experimented on like that. No one has the right to perpetrate such discomfort and malice upon another, but the fact of the matter is, it does exist and we can't turn a blind eye to it.The second level is mankind is forever searching and experimenting and trying to discover different ways to live, survive and improve his way of life. Experiments on man and animal, as gruesome as they have been over the years, have occurred often for our benefit, from testing shampoo and mascara products on monkeys to getting mice high so they can test anti-narcotic drugs on them. No, that's not fair, but it is what it is. It does exist. We can protest all month long on the streets of every living metropolis in the world but mankind will still push on, some of his ways will be to our liking and some won't.I thought the acting was well done in this film, from the doctor's matter-of-fact stoicism to the genuine fear in the victims' faces. The music was eerily apropos, too - classical music playing while the most gruesome activity imaginable is going on. That contrastive idea worked in 'A Clockwork Orange' and it's also effective here. As a psychological thriller 'Grotesque' is a success. As a gorefest it also surpassed the expected.On a personal note, the playing of 'Pomp and Circumstance' at the end made me angry. It reminded me of high school, a time when I was bullied, neglected, made fun of and, for the first time, considered suicide. It's interesting, and probably fitting, that 'Pomp' would show up in a film like this. Maybe the director knew that the people who would see this film would themselves have been the victim of bullying and may even have PTSD. It's been said that victims of abuse who expose themselves to new images of violence is a phenomenon that does occur but this "repetitive compulsion" hasn't been fully explored. http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/Watch this film if you dare, not as entertainment, but as a cautionary tale. It explores the depths of man's depravity well, and you may as well see this version because Hollywood won't touch this subject matter with a ten foot pole.

Yes - weak. I liked the character of the doctor - devoid of emotion, sympathy, pure seeker of new impressions. Cunning in his ways, keeping the subjects alive, being skilled in medicine... Playing a God and putting its victims into a state that would make them be happy to get something they would normally consider granted.But it went on far too long with far too little action. All the pathetic "love" tests, only proving that a man would do anything for a woman, and not the other way around. Since he tricked them anyway, I hoped he would go back on his word about her too. Instead, he just made the man suffer, as per usual, and then offed her promptly. Liked her monologue though, but the fact that he took it in... sort of broke the character. He was supposed to delight in it, to make her fire cease... Instead she angered him like kids troll each other at school and he actually took it seriously, like he had no idea. It completely breaks the character...Doing all those things to the man, and what did he do to the woman? Cut her ni**les off? That's casual... Besides, he even enjoyed her! He is supposed to be devoid of emotion, and he promised to be "gentle"?I know who I am, and I know why I watched this. And it unfortunately didn't deliver. But at least he survived... Otherwise this movie would go straight on the Disney shady shelf, with "happy end" and "token villain".

A young couple are shown on their first date at a restaurant. They smile and exchange pleasantries, both are quite shy and when they walk together on the side walk, they are assaulted and abducted by a stranger. The couple find themselves securely restrained in a basement. A man begins the fun by sticking a screwdriver into the male victims stomach, then he cuts his tongue and rapes the girl. He cuts off her nipples and one arm. After further cutting of various body parts, he moves the suffering couple to what looks like a hospital room and cares to their wounds with medical like expertise. After some much needed recuperation, it's back to the dungeon for more mutilation. He cuts out the mans intestines and strings them to hook and thus begins a contest of endurance and loyalty to his date. If I haven't discouraged your curiosity yet, well watch the film to find out how it ends.