Body Melt

Starring:Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Regina Gaigalas, Vincent Gil, Neil Foley, Anthea Davis, Matthew Newton, Lesley Baker, Amy Grove-Rogers, Adrian Wright, Jillian Murray (II), Ben Geurens, Amanda Douge, Brett Climo, Lisa McCune, Nick Polites, Maurie Annese, William McInnes, Suzi Dougherty
Director: Philip Brophy
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product Type: DVD

Description

First Stage: Hallucinations Second Stage: Organ Failure Third Stage: Body Melt It's a sunny day in suburbia. Suddenly, a hideously deformed, dying man disrupts the peace when he crashes his car into Pebbles Court, the better part of Homesville. He's the victim if an experimental drug marketed as the dietary supplement Vimuville, which has apparently malfunctioned. He has arrived too late to warn the population of Homesville not to try the pill dropped in their mailbox by a respectable pharmaceutical company. Unfortunately, the folks of Homesville are suckers for freebies and start deforming, mutating, exploding, and otherwise experiencing sudden and very gruesome deaths. A local health spa becomes the nerve center for this horrific outbreak as the film spirals down a catastrophic path that has been compared to John Carpenter's 1995 film "In The Mouth of Madness". Full of shocking surprises, imaginative photography, and layered with gore, Body Melt offers horrific entertainment as lustful teenagers. Old ladies, health staff, and respectable families go through the merciless deteriorating torture.

Customer Reviews:

A glimpse into Australian life........2006-03-26

Actually, that was just a little joke. 'Body Melt' is one of the best splatterfest/comedies I have ever seen despite the fact that I do believe I once lived in a place eerily similar to the fictious 'homesville'.

Anyone familiar with Aussie T.V will instantly recognise such famous faces as Neighbour's Ian Smith and Blue Heeler's Lisa McCune. Those of you who have no idea what I am talking about can rest assured that this movie is camp Aussie acting at it's best with lots of whacky nudity, mutations, inbreeders and vomit thrown in for good measure. Even the storyline is almost clever, albeit simplistic. But who needs a complicated plot when you've got lots of exploding bodies and melting faces...right?

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If David Cronenberg Made A Comedy...........2004-07-06

Apparently Austrailian director Brophy wanted to make a film to rival New Zealander Peter Jackson's gorefest, Dead Alive. The outrageous gore and humor are very Jackson-esque in Body Melt. But this film is crazy-100% nuts. It's not as gory as Jackson's film, but it's alot more off the wall. In fact, I'm surprised this film isn't a bigger hit amongst hardcore horror fans. Must not have had very good distribution or promotion, and that's a shame coz this film should be viewed at least once by any horror fan. The gore here doesn't come from flesh eating zombies(which is very reliable subject matter for gore), but from an experimental drug, actually vitamin or vitamin supplement, it's never defined 100%. Some evil, wacky corporation/health club is making this stuff in the hopes of making a totally healthy human being, but the darn stuff just doesn't work right. It basically just makes the body lose all control and rebel against itself. This doesn't stop our corporation from wanted to sell it in the markets though. The Corporation decides to give this stuff a little test run in an unsuspecting small neighborhood. Once our neighborhood has taken it, the trouble starts. Trouble-with a capital T, that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool. Speaking of pool, some of these folks get invited to the health spa(for scientific observation I'm guessing) and meet their ends in particularly gruesome fashion. Most of the(short) film has the police investigating the entire mess and unraveling the conspiracy. I could easily see David Cronenberg doing this film, though it would be alot different. Just imagine if David Cronenberg decided to let his sense of humor take over(fat chance) for one film, and you get a pretty good idea of what Body Melt is like. This is an independant film done in Australia, which means no Hollywood meddling. The Hollywood system would NEVER allow such a film to hit theaters. That's fine though coz you can get this dvd for a pretty reasonable price. At least rent it if you aren't willing to gamble with your purchases. I can tell ya, if you like Peter Jackson's or Sam Raimi's early work, Body Melt is highly recommended for you.

Terrible.......2004-03-13

One of the worst films ever. I consider myself to be fairly knowledgable in the realm of horror movies, even those played for laughs, but this one is just awful. Nothing happens for the first hour of the movie. When the "special effects" do finally show up, they are terribly fake and cheesy looking. Unintentionally hilarious, in fact. I get the attempted point of the film, one of scientific experimentation gone awry, it was just completely botched. There is no need for anyone to waste their time on this piece of crap. It is truly terrible.

Ridiculous.......2004-01-24

This flick is a curiosity.Most of the actors are quite known to have performed in series such as Blues Heelers,Home and away ...and see them in a "horror" movie made me smile.The budget sounds not too bad but how weak is the story.Effects are bad.I was expected something a bit similar to the P.JAckson Bad Taste and unfortunately I was wrong. There is more dialogue than horror or fx scenes.Some parts are funny but I am not sure that's the result they wanted at the end.Ridiculous.

Body Melt - Australian for weird.......2003-12-09

This is a fun and crazy film. It feels like a Troma flick at times and at others gives you a sort of TCM shudder. There are visions of Dead Alive and quite a lot of Cronenbergian images. At just barely over an hour, this film packs in a lot of craziness. Not scary, but pretty over the top in terms of grossness. I can't get the idea that one inbred chick in the film is a dead ringer for the lead singer of A.F.I. She/he is very scary; actually this scene is the most frightening in the film. Just for this "separated at birth" deal it's worth checking out for yourself. Head on over to you local health farm, get some vitamins, and enjoy the show. A great party film and a must have for those of you that enjoy Reanimator, Dagon, or any other gruefully great movies by Stuart Gordon, Raimi, etc.

Strange Stories: Body Melt/Narcosys/Video X/Killer Me/Hollywood Scarefest

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A glimpse into Australian life.
If David Cronenberg Made A Comedy....
Terrible
Ridiculous
Body Melt - Australian for weird

Body Melt
Starring: Gerard Kennedy , Andrew Daddo , Ian Smith , Regina Gaigalas , and Vincent Gil
Director: Philip Brophy
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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