Oh, oh man. You know when you find a movie so bizarre, so grotesque, that you just have to talk about it? Body Melt is that kind of movie. It's an Australian body horror splatter film from the early 1990s, and it reflects that in every possible way: the soundtrack is early '90s dance beats, … Continue reading Body Melt (1993)
That name is a misnomer; there is no city. There are gallons of slime though. Woo, it's time for a splatter film! Alex gets a new apartment and whines about his girlfriend wanting to maintain her virginity. Then he meets the apartment's residents: two old women, a weird hippy poet, and a sultry goth lady. … Continue reading Slime City (1988)
The Fly is an incredible movie that provides both excellent body horror shocks and wonderful performances along with a stellar plot. Its sequel...not so much. Sure, it can be every bit as gross, but the script just isn't up to snuff of its Academy Award-winning predecessor. That doesn't mean it's not worth checking out if … Continue reading The Fly II (1989)
When is a zombie movie not a zombie movie? When said zombies are in fact a hive-mind of beyond-human intelligence and memory bent on world destruction for the laughs. That's where The Hive comes in. I've had this movie described to me as Memento meets the Evil Dead remake (even the trailers do that), and … Continue reading The Hive (2014)
Well, how else was I gonna follow up Microwave Massacre? This'll melt your face, son. Bums living in a junkyard fight each other, rape and murder a mob don's girlfriend, piss off a local cop, and drink old liquor that causes them to melt and/or explode. That right there should tell you all you need … Continue reading Street Trash (1987)
There is cyberpunk film, and then there is Japanese cyberpunk film. While cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction film, Japanese cyberpunk borrows many of the themes of cyberpunk but ventures into extremity and generally eschews or defies traditional narrative interpretation. Blade Runner is just as much an influence as the likes of Videodrome and … Continue reading Death Powder (1986)
You may not have guessed this, but I enjoy a good body horror movie from time to time. Or a bad one, but I suppose that's neither here nor there. The important thing is that when Bite premiered at Fantasia Film Festival, barf bags were handed out. They got used, too. Apparently people don't like … Continue reading Bite (2015)
I can watch good movies...I just usually don't. Death Warmed Up (AKA Death Warmed Over) is an early New Zealand splatterfilm, coming out in 1984. While it would lack the humor of later New Zealand splatter releases, this is exactly the kind of thing that Peter Jackson was watching when he started working on films … Continue reading Death Warmed Up (1984)
This is the Alien Resurrection of movies about giant spiders, only far worse. Jason and Alexandra are a married couple who end up shipwrecked in the ocean after finding a burned-out wreck of a sailboat. They get picked up by a cargo ship, only to discover that the ship is really a mobile aquatic laboratory … Continue reading Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)
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