Best movies like Celluloid Nightmares
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A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist. The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself. Hisayasu Sato's regular Kiyomi Ito begins to investigate the videotape.
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Sweet Whip
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side. Naoko is a popular master in a S&M club.
August Underground
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair.
August Underground's Mordum
Two deranged friends bring along another guy to go on a random murder rampage. They kidnap lesbian lovers and couples and torture them.
August Underground's Penance
August Underground's Penance is the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on a murder spree. Again two killers videotape their bloodthirsty madness, but Penance also shows their slow decline.
Ichi the Killer
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
The Bedroom
Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.
Evil Dead Trap
A talk-show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.
The Dream of Garuda
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets. After carrying out vicious attacks on a prostitute and a young girl he finally comes face to face with her.
Survey Map of a Paradise Lost
Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club, but is startled to hear she's been implicated in the bloody death of a client with perverted tastes, Kihara. Sensing a bigger story, Nukada uncovers a link between Midori and the late Kihara's wife and realizes that the situation is much more complex than he imagined.
The Hills Run Red
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Gimme Shelter
The mother does half-nude aerobics until her son rapes her, and the daughter falls into bed with a female teacher. Despite the shocking goings-on, the film is much more in keeping with Sato's usual themes of alienation and corrupted innocence than its brutal predecessor.
Neigh Means Yes
Yuu is living with her horse Ryusei on the edge of the sea. One day a young researcher and three artists arrive and they disturb Yuu's quasi-telepathic relation with a horse.
Zoom Up: Rape Site
A young couple, meeting for a tryst at the site of a brutal rape/murder, witness another murder and have to decide whether to turn the killer in.
Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic
An abusive psychologist enjoys torturing and abusing his wife. After rough sexual session of pain and dominance she decides to leave her husband. Then her masochistic twin sister arrives and of course plenty of kinky sexual torture and bondage happens next.
Psychic Rose
The tale of an alienated young guy eager to discover a way to spend his bills. Financial relief shows up in the form of unknown e-mails directing him to rape women for money, capturing the crimes as evidence of his work. Sordid as his brand new job may be, the aspiring rapist seems to have solved his financial woes, until a feisty young paranormal uses the girl extrasensory powers to resolve the case.
In a Thicket
Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.
Eat the Schoolgirl: Osaka Telephone Club
"Eat the Schoolgirl" concerns two young adults who made a dirty work for a yakuza gang by making sadistic rape/snuff films. Both of them are sexually obsessed; one is addicted to telephone sex whilst the other can only function sexually, whilst seeing mutilated female corpses.
Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
A nurse investigates a sex trafficking ring after a woman commits suicide in her office.
Female Teacher: In Front of the Students
The lovely Reiko has taken a new teaching job at a creepy old high school. She is an extremely attractive woman and the young students in her class have fallen for her. One night, after tennis practice, she is brutally assaulted in the locker room shower by a man with a stocking over his face. Left on the floor naked and in shock, she discovers a single puzzle piece left behind by the crazed man. A few days later, a pair of students enact a perverted sexual revenge on Reiko for kicking someone off the tennis team. Could one of these students be the man who brutalized her in the locker room? Who owns the strange puzzle piece? As the mystery unfolds, Reiko must come to terms with her own sexual urges and fate.
Lolita Vibrator Torture
High school student Kozue spreads flyers in search of her missing classmate. A psychopath lures her to his place, where he abducts and imprisons her. The psychopath rapes his victims with a vibrator, then poisons and photographs them dying. However, Kozue reacts differently from other women.
Headless
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.
Horse, Woman, Dog
Three social outcasts who live near the seaside interact with each other in increasingly disturbing ways. The trio of characters are a woman who has killed her sister, a man who enjoys necrophilia, and a female amnesiac. The first woman engages in sadistic pursuits such as capturing young women at the beach to force them to engage in sexual activities, including copulation with a horse and a dog.
Rafureshia
Cult director Hisayasu Sato explores the sexual exploits of several women through the adventures of a young girl, who's fled her sexually abusive father, and an unhappy housewife. Looking for a fresh start, the women find each other, steal a bag of money and try to escape their pasts. In their flight, they encounter everything from adult babies to sword-wielding madams.
Love Obsession
Another satirical broadside against the thrill-seeking public, and the media that panders to them, from filmmaker Hisayasu Sato.
Pleasure Kill
Eiji, a teenager eager to follow in his late father's scientific footsteps perfects one of his old experiments to diminish the barrier between pain and pleasure.
Turtle Vision
A deranged woman gouges out the eyes of the strangers she has sex with. She was once filmed being brutally raped on the roof of her school and is still trying to cope with the trauma.
Molester's Train: Dirty Behavior
A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these two lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.
Entrails of a Virgin
A group of photographers and their models go to a forest retreat. They engage in S&M play and lots of softcore sex. Eventually they get picked off one-by-one by a filth-covered 'demon' with an unnaturally large penis.
Rusted Body: Guts of a Virgin III
Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler.
A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist. The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself. Hisayasu Sato's regular Kiyomi Ito begins to investigate the videotape.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Celluloid Nightmares Starring Kiyomi Itō, Kazuhiro Sano, Sayaka Hitomi, Reika Kazami, and more. If you liked Celluloid Nightmares then you may also like: All Night Long 2, Sweet Whip, August Underground, August Underground's Mordum, August Underground's Penance and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
All Night Long 2
In downtown Japan, a lonely computer nerd tries to maintain a peaceful existance while being stalked by a gang of deviant homosexuals who want to use him for their brutal S&M activities.