Trailer—Body Melt

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Body Melt

If you like Peter Jackson's earlier works, "Bad Taste" and "Braindead," you'll love this film as it works in the same vein. It's a great parody of the dull life of suburbia whose citizens seem to have no reason to live but would be willing to do whatever they can to live as long and as healthy as possible. They become unwitting guinea pigs of experimental drugs designed to create superhumans. Warning: it has some really gross scenes, but this is secondary. This is one of those rare B-movie horror films that actually tries to convey a message and pokes fun at itself at the same time.

Take the cream of Australian soap actors, mix in a gore-packed script add a pinch of devilishly funny humour, stir, place in oven and garnish with delux Campness (and boy do I mean Camp with a capital C!). A serious gore-filled horror film or a deliciously funny parody of one? BOTH and yet so much more! Ian Smith (Harold from Neighbours) steals the show as an evil Doctor so camp he makes Dr.Frank N'Furter (the Rocky Horror Picture Show) look straighter than a ruler! Packed with wickedly vicious humour scream as people get (for want of a better word) "snotted" to death, laugh as the boy on the skateboard meets his final end and cry when the killer placenta from Hell goes on the rampage. All in all a wonderful, light hearted comedy/splatter movie! WATCH IT NOW!!!

If David Cronenberg had ever directed for Troma Films, Body Melt would probably have been the result. Vile, disgusting, and funny as hell.

I had not heard about "Body Melt" prior to stumbling upon it by sheer random luck. I decided to watch it solely because it was listed under the horror section. Right, well I managed to endure 45 minutes of the ordeal that is known as "Body Melt" before I completely gave up from sheer and utter boredom. There was nothing interesting to the storyline, which actually seemed like they were just making up the story as they went along. The characters in the movie were every bit as random and pointless as the storyline itself, which really didn't do much to improve on the overall movie experience. It should be said that the special effects were adequate, taking into consideration the type of movie and the budget it was on. All in all, this was not a particularly interesting or enjoyable movie. And I have absolutely no intention of returning to watch the rest of the movie.

Even though this is not quite a satire, it's full of funny moments for all sickos and people with twisted sense of humour. Some australian reviewers inform us that some of the cast are well known in Australia from soap shows. That makes me really glad and the whole thing clearer! Really gross-out gore effects (i expected a bit more, though), really great photograph & depiction of an ausytralian suberb (even though i have never been there!) and a sequence of really entertaining scenes. This could be considered the definition of "high-time" for a bunch of friends drinking beer and laughing, but, to me, its this and much more.

This movie is just plain 90's "horror era" FUN! Like someone else said here...it's really hard to describe this movie,but HOLY COW it is a fun ride! I'm not really going to say much else about this flick...you just have to see it to appreciate it. Get some friends together...pop in a pizza...and fire up the VCR (that's a machine that we used to use in the Stone Age to watch movies with,for all of you millennials out there) Actually...the lower quality cassette video makes this classic film even better! And YES...I DO still have a working VCR. Well...that's my two cents worth. Toodles.

The second funniest horror/comedy I have ever seen, second only to Kiwi flick Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead). Special effects are corny, yet very well done. The plot isn't too involving, but doesn't fall apart and can be followed with ease. Great portrayal of your average Australian. Basically there's this company that tests it's hazardous products on a new neighbourhood causing havoc. Genitals explode, rednecks shove sticks up people, and pregnant women burst open and their placentas attack people. Superb! 8/10.