Starring: Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Regina Gaigalas, & Vincent Gil
Directed By Philip Brophy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106450/
Man, you gotta hand it to the Aussies. they know how to make a good cheap ass gore film. I clicked on this movie expecting the absolute worse, but was left with a taste in my mouth for more. Dead Alive & Bad Taste often get mistaked by idiots as Aussie films. Not true. Considering that Peter Jackson did both and is from New Zealand, that would make them official Kiwi films. Oh but don't get too down, Australia has given us yanks some fine cinema. Turkey Shoot, Mad Max, & Patrick are just a few to name, and even in it's B movie glory, Body Melt Deserves a nod.
Body Melt is the story of a little town called Pebbles Court, Homesville. Not a bad little town with the usual fare that comes with small towns. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk, they are being subjected to an experimental drug that is supposed to help you lose weight, but as we all know from past movies the initial use for a drug seems to have some nasty side effects. The side effect in Body Melt is a nasty case of skin melting. Think of the bums in Street Trash, who drank the Tenafly Viper and basically turned into paint. The same effect is here, but a little more graphic.
The poison comes in the form of a diet pill called Vimuville. I really thought that was the seller to me. I loved the way Street Trash focused on Homeless people and their alcoholism, and how the thing they lived for took them down so very hard. same thing can be said about Vimuville. You take it and some time later you see the throatscope image of the stuff coming back up. That was pretty decent work there too. Anytime you hear horror music and see something come up from the stomach, and go up the throat, you know it's gonna get nasty.
I would give this movie a warning though. The film stock itself seems cheap and grainy, but it's worth the sit down time if you can get past it. I would also recommend this film for anybody who wants something different than the current horror movie trends. It had me laughing and shaking my head throughout.
-Mr. What? ( * * * )
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