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Guinea Pig 6: Devil Doctor Woman, 1990, dir. Hajime Tabe

And now for the silliest and least gory of the films in the series. While the premise is amusing enough itself (a transvestite, black-market doctor "curing" really strange diseases), it gets lost in "diseases" that are just too focused on being ridiculous and less on being ridiculously gory. If there was more of a focus on ideas like the man getting the mobile tattoo removed from his body (can you guess how much skin has to be removed to catch a tattoo that can escape?) and less on things like a talking stomach this would have been more effective as an entry in this series. It also doesn't help that these are by far the weakest effects in the series, making even the poorest effects in the previous entry look uber-realistic. One of the few things that really works for this entry is the title character, who is played by the delicious Japanese transvestite Peter, who also happens to be a legitimate actos who even had a decent role in Akira Kurosawa's Ran. Overall, if you're going to skip on seeing an entry in this series, I'd have to say it would actually be Android of Notre Dame, for at least this film isn't trying to take itself seriously and can be enjoyable in just how irreverantly goofy everything is; it's obvious that the crew on this film was just having a good time being stupid.