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BODY MELT

1994 • AU HMDB
October 28, 1994

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

Directors

Philip Brophy

Cast

Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Regina Gaigalas, Vincent Gil, Neil Foley, Anthea Davis, Matthew Newton, Lesley Baker, Amy Grove-Rogers
Horror Commedia Fantascienza

REVIEWS (1)

ER

Emiliano Ranzani

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Vimuville opens a new beauty center and begins testing a new anabolic steroid on some people. Unfortunately, the compound has disastrous side effects... The film is a splatter that, as the title indicates, shows the human body as clay to which the mysterious drug can make take the most varied connotations, such as abnormal tongues or men who melt into wax. Similar to "Bad Taste" by Peter Jackson, the film, on the edge of bad taste humor, reads between the lines a certain criticism of fitness fanatics, but the director's main intention is something else. Unfortunately, the story is flat and the special effects, despite being by the same special effects artist as "Braindead", are not effective, even because they are used with a certain parsimony. Some gags are saved as only a film of this kind knows how to propose.