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31 Days of Horror 2021 Day 04 American Guinea Pig Song of Solomon

 

TITLE-American Guinea Pig Song of Solomon

SOURCE-Unearthed Films Blu Ray

Back in 2015 or so I heard rumors about some company getting the rights to make a new series of films in the infamous Guinea Pig franchise. Turns out the company was Unearthed Films. And so far the American Guinea Pig Films,like the Japanese ones,have divided the horror fan base. Some people see them are well made gore films. Others think they are cheap cash grabs.

Back in 2020 around the middle of October I had some Amazon giftcards left over from my birthday the previous summer. Was trying to think of stuff I wanted that I had never gotten so far. Was looking at Jim Van Bebber films. Saw that he was in Song of Solomon and ordered the Blu Ray.

A young female witnesses her father's suicide,it is a pretty violent and gory suicide. Mary,the young female, starts to act strange. Which causes her mother to get some help. Nothing seems to help Mary. And then her eye's turn black. Cut to Father Blake,Jim Van Bebber,who is called in to exorcise Mary. 

Sure this sounds a bit like the Exorcist. And yea in some ways Song of Solomon is a Exorcist clone. But the Exorcist never got this extreme. And from what I have read the Exorcist didn't use De Exorcismus Et Supplicationibus Quirbusdam,the Roman Catholic book on how to perform an exorcisium,but the director of Song of Solomon used that book along with a bunch of other fairly unknown and/or forgotten Christian texts to make this film as close to reality as they could get.

Now Song of Solomon isn't a film for everyone. The gore is fairly well done and stomach turning. As of a few weeks ago Song of Solomon was streaming on Tubi. Tubi is free to anyone in the US  or Canada. They show various films and movies uncut for free. But you do get ad breaks. But that is a good way for someone to try out this film without buying it.

American Guinea Pig Song of Solomon gets a B.