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Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies, 1986, dir. Masayuki Kuzumi

At this point the series had garnered a decent amount of controversy as well as switched hands to another distributor, which results in the first comedic entry in the series. It serves essentially as a blunt satire on what the strains of corporate life in Japan can do to low-level members of the bureaucracy. The protagonist is such a worker who literally gets trapped in living hell he cannot escape: no matter how he tries to kill himself he cannot die. At first he tries again and again to find something that is effective, but it eventually turns into him essentially pulling a series of gorier and gorier gags on a coworker. As such, the gore starts out a little slower this time around but escalates to a point on level for the series, with organs strewn about a room and dismemberment aplenty. The comedic nature of this entry definitely makes this the least horrifying of the series at this point, but it will definitely be horrifying enough to those squeamish at all when it comes to gore. Personally, I wasn't scared but still found the gore inventive enough as a means for comedy that it should please any gorehound. The only problem I had with this film was the odd framing device where some sort of scholar is presenting the tale to the viewer, which I guess is meant to imbue some sort of realism as the first two films had, but with the fantastical premise of this entry it comes off as completely unnecessary. In a way, though, it adds to just how silly the entire film is, so it shouldn't stop anyone from enjoying it.