Purely Joyful Movie!

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Laboratory of the Devil is essentially more of a exploitive rip-off / cash-in on the first Men Behind the Sun film. It does include all the gore and nastiness of the original film, but only because it's pretty much a scene-for-scene recreation of it.It is years after the war has ended and the American government have called together all the surviving doctors from Unit 731 to offer them large amounts of money for them to continue their research into biological weapons. From here on out the rest of the film is told via flashbacks concerning the activities of Unit 731 during the war. This time we see the atrocities through the eyes of a young soldier who has been drafted and forced to leave his young wife behind to wait for his return. As he witnesses the treatment of the Chinese and the "experiments'' being carried out, he feels remorse at the crimes of his fellow countrymen and ultimately rebels.The majority of the experiments and tortures on display here are taken as is straight from the first film - we have the hot / cold temperature tests ending in skin flayed from the bone, deliberately infecting subjects with Bubonic Plague, live vivisection, freezing limbs in liquid nitrogen then smashing them, etc, etc. The only major difference here is in the last half hour where the film deteriorates into a melodramatic action flick with Kung-fu and pointless heroics.Due to being pretty much a straight-up exploitation film, Laboratory of the Devil looses the impact of its predecessor. It has goofy "comic relief'' scenes, some nudity, the aforementioned action sequences and an extremely trashy synth score, all of which combine to make it rather hard to take seriously.All things considered though, its not an awful film and if I hadn't recently seen the first MBTS I probably would have dug it a lot more. There's plenty of gore and torture so I'd recommend it to all you rabid gorehound's out there, but if you're looking for a sequel as powerful and shocking as Men Behind the Sun, avoid or check out the excellent Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre by MBTS director TF Mous instead. 6/10

Watched the original Men Behind the Sun, and then this sequel. This was English dubbed though. Cantonese version may have been way better. Anyway, from the 1st 2 minutes I felt this is some awkward attempt to ride on the "success" of the first movie.Story about Japanese biological weapons development with some off-topic (maybe I missed something?) autopsies. Some shots are clearly ripped from the first one, like the liquid nitrogen demonstrations and when the leader dude stands in front of the japan flag & his "army". If you haven't seen the original movie, you may like this, anyway I was so much disappointed I recommend watching "Men Behind the Sun" or even "Mermaid in a Manhole" instead, and skip this one.

I honestly don't understand how someone could like Men Behind the Sun but not like this film. Although inferior in some ways, it is extremely devastating. We are treated to brutal extended autopsy, Arms being stripped of flesh,an autopsy on a living guy that looks suspiciously real(they remove his heart as it beats and when they cut him open it bleeds for real, exuding out of the fat and tissue layers)decapitation, dismemberment and more. I have read reviews for Guinea Pig:devils experiment wherein the reviewer states that he believed it to be real snuff, come on now.This flick has more realistic slaughter than the first Guinea Pig. This film uses real corpses for all the effects and the living autopsy scene is brutal. the only way i figure they did it without actually killing a guy is if they filmed a heart surgery or cleverly slaughtered a pig disguising it as a human. Don't believe the bad reviews. This movie is sick and deserves more credit.

I wouldn't call this a horror movie, it is more like a very violent drama...The gore scenes are great, even if the autopsy and amputation scenes are by far the most detailed and violent. The plot is better than most of the movies I've seen, and the movie is very well-directed...Still, to be honest, I think this movie would have been even better if there were more autopsy scenes, since you watch this movie for the gore!However, I guess I have to give this movie 10/10, cause the scenes you have heard people talk about is twice as cruel as you could imagine...watch it, and enjoy the violence!!!!!!!!!!