Mari Somei, Masami Hisamoto, Shigeru Saiki, Tsuyoshi Toshishige

An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores all over her body that begin to pustulate and bleed. He uses what oozes from her sores to paint her ...( read more  read more... )portrait. When he can no longer handle it anymore he breaks down and dismembers her body.

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Unrated, 63 min.

Directed by: Hideshi Hino

Release Date: January 1, 1988

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  • October 22, 2008
    A painter named Hayashi(Shigeru Saiki)finds a wounded mermaid(Mari Somei)and saves her.He takes her home and puts her into his bathtub where she keeps decomposing,the spreading disease spurting blood and pus.Hideshi Hino's "Guinea Pig 4:Mermaid in the Manhole" is easily one of th...( read more)e most disgusting horror movies I have ever seen.The make-up effects made by Nobuaki Koga are incredibly revolting.The character of Hayashi is pretty sympathetic and the film has a mood of a very sad romance.The mermaid represents painter's wife and "all the beautiful things" he has lost,so she is bound to rot and vanish too."Mermaid in the Manhole" works as a piece of extreme art,so anyone who loves Japanese horror should give it a look.However if you're easily offended avoid this one like the plague
  • October 7, 2007
    You have to love the guinea pig series (Mr. Sheen excluded) for the fact its just an excuse to muck about with special effects. The Complete collection is lurking about on ebay somewhere.
  • December 26, 2009
    Toscão e nojento.

    Assista em horas de extremo tédio com os amigos
  • December 12, 2009
    an ingenious modern day fairytale, even though the acting and story sucks; NOT for the faint-hearted
  • October 18, 2009
    The other entry that I previously saw. This is, along with Flowers, the most popular of the series and at least so far, the most creative. Painter guy finds Mermaid girl in the sewer. She's just chillin', all wounded and shit. He takes her home and um... well, what do you think?
  • October 4, 2009
    Hideshi Hino strikes back with a gruesome, twisted and NASTY Guinea Pig sequel, featuring a painter that finds a mermaid in a sewer and takes her to his home for making a painting (what the F#CK is a mermaid doing in a sewer!).

    Anyway, the mermaid starts to rot in the most go...( read more)ry and disturbing way possible...

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    ...from cutting herself spilling blood of seven different colors, to expelling worms from body and throwing them up, just to be sadistically dismembered by the painter once the painting is finished.

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    Recommended only to hardcore horror fans.

    29/100
  • August 9, 2009
    The best entry in the Guinea Pig series. A truly beautiful and emotional work of art. Definitely worth seeing!
  • July 17, 2009
    Gross, challenging, awesome.
  • June 12, 2009
    Esta pelicula de 1 hora es... una prueba de resistencia contra el vomito. Gore, pus, sangre, gusanos y mucha pus Una sirena que queda varada en una alcantarilla y rescatada por un pintor que la lleva a su casa, la sirena sabe que morirá y le pide al pintor que la inmortalice pint...( read more)andole un cuadro con las secreciones putrefactas que cubren su cuerpo. Nada mas.
  • January 29, 2009
    This movie is beautiful.

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