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  Review by DirkH ★★★½ 7

  Film#34 of 'It's June Jim, but not as we know it '

  It's not often that something this disgusting looks this beautiful.

  Taxidermia is a three part freak show that is an exercise in style and an exploration of the bizarre. Palfi is a visual director who seems to think out of the box more often than not. He has a distinct style and creates some absolutely stunning imagery.

  At the same time he seems to want to prove that beauty and ugliness lie close to each other, completely different sides of the same coin. Palfi shocks and disgusts one moment, the other he gives us a creation of utter beauty.

  The problem with this film lies in the patches…

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  Review by Eli Shea ★★★★★ 4

  Taxidermia is not for the squeamish. If you can stomach multiple slobs vomiting at the same time, its worth the watch.

  This flick is a triad of depressing tales of a family. A father, whose tale is told first, is a depressed maniacal soldier, who sires a son. This son becomes the worlds fastest eater. He joins sadistic food eating contests; the filming is gut-wrenching. But you just can't turn your eyes away. The third story is the fat speed eater's son; a freak, a taxidermist, who babysits his morbidly obese father, who literally eats hundreds of chocolate bars a day and can't even get out of his bed to use the bathroom. He sits in a chair and defecates through a hole in the chair into a pan. The taxidermist has an UNBELIEVABLE plot twist. I needn't say more.

  See Taxidermia. Prepare yourself deeply. You're putting your mind at risk for scars that don't heal.

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  Review by Kyle Faulkner ★★★★½

  War is a paedophile, imperial staff programmed by fetishized nationalism bully and bastardize the libido into scopic oblivion, the phallus as weapons-grade flamethrower, "cunt makes the world go round," little orphan girls extract constellations of cum, the future conceived in a cocktail of centrefold idealism and gammon, and the People's Republic make sport of its constituents, fattened and atrophied by The Communist Effort, to finally slough into a miasma of consumer culture and expired war stories, where all is replica, spectacle, and commodity, and we have taxidermized ourselves into a disensouled vacuum.

  And after that? Go outside. You're looking at it.

  Fuck A Serbian Film and its pathetic sophomoric extremism and anti-poetry. This is how it's done. After the brilliant…

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  Review by ivy wolk ★★★ 1

  “I had a vomiting technique named after me!”

  what the fuck? it’s not even bad. but holy shit. so weird. fuckin hungarians! eastern bloc’ers are intense. never seen so much puke in a movie, but i’ve yet to watch the Slaughtered Vomit Dolls series so maybe that’ll change. I wanna be in a movie like this. Something super fucked up and gross. What if I became the queen of exploitation cinema? Imagine if I’m a grindhouse darling one day. Anyway, I’m trying to explore the genre of body horror and this was my follow up to American Mary. Probably a better film than American Mary, but that was sexy gross and this is just gross gross. I LOVE a good vignette though. I fuck with anthologies. The best part of this was the human taxidermy. Cinematography is insane!!! Shoutout to the production designers too, this shit looks crazy!

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  Review by Anna Imhof 🌸 ★★★ 3

  I'm not hungry anymore. Like, ever again.

  But I've got a new life goal: Find a man who can shoot fire out of his dick. I mean I've always loved fireworks. It just never occurred to me that they could be combined with penis.

  This gives you a little idea of how genius Taxidermia is.

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  Review by GoodBadMovies ★★★★

  In "Taxidermia" begleitet wir in drei Kapiteln eine ungarische Familie aus drei Generationen.
  Kapitel 1: Wegen der sexuellen "Unterdrückung", sucht ein Soldat nach neuen, ausgefallenen Masturbationsmöglichkeiten.
  Kapitel 2: Ein Wettesser verliebt sich und träumt von einer großen Zukunft.
  Kapitel 3: Ein Ausstopfer, der sich um seinen schwer übergewichtigen (Monty Python lässt grüßen) Vater kümmert, führt ein einsames Leben.

  "Taxidermia" ist ein absolut bizarrer und grotesker ungarischer Film mit wunderschönen Bildern und extravaganten Kamerafahrten. Ausgestattet mit drei Geschichten, die mit ihrer satirischen Überspitzung das ungarische Leben durch den Kakao ziehen, bei der wie auch schon in Bela Tarr's "Satantango" die Perspektivlosigkeit und der Wunsch eines Neuanfangs hier ebenfalls eine Rolle spielt und dabei zeigt zu welchen (beruflichen) Mitteln manche greifen, um…

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  Review by EudoraFletcher ★★★★

  This is a movie that won´t let you feel distanced or cool.

  Everything here is completely disgusting. The pictures are very memorable. It´s like a accumulation of offensiveness on the background of several generations of a hungarian family.

  One can almost smell the shit in the outhouse.

  For a while I had no clue what this is all about. Now I guess it´s about love, materialism, greed, sex...

  The plot is pretty consequent. The camera is very well which makes "Taxidermia" more cruel. Characters, facilities and costumes are very well-thought-out which contributes to the nauseation...

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  Review by Lester ★★★★

  Hooptober Se7en #19/31
  Criteria: Body Horror (4/4), Hungary (8/6 countries)Main List: boxd.it/8nrH6
  Cinemonster's Hooptober HQ: boxd.it/7phpm

  Getting the required viewing out of the way (I think I have 3-4 left) before just counting every horror movie I watch this month as a Hooptober pick. I’m done with body horror now and I swear I picked the 4 nastiest movies for this category!!

  Yeah this is one movie you’ll be grateful doesn’t come in Smell-O-Vision because this entire movie is just comprehensively gross; communal vomit pools, a character as morbidly obese as “rag on a stick” future Bart Simpson, a ton of animal guts, animal droppings, and a fair amount of gore all wrapped into a pretty interesting/compelling generational allegory where character’s feelings are given serious attention as much as its out-there symbolism outside of all the repulsive visuals on display, like an oughts Hungarian Salo?. Simply astonishing at points. 

  8.0

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  Review by Jay Sherman ★★★★

  What the hell did I just watch?

  The most surreal movie ever. Taxidermia is creepy, disturbing, shocking and very, very funny. Movies like Eraserhead aren't even surreal in comparison. Although this is far from my favorite film, it's an experience I will remember forever.

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  Review by Auteur ★★ 7

  Part of Hell On Earth: Horror Around The World, a 30 Days 30 Countries challenge.

  11th stop: Hungary

  This isn't even a horror film; I feel cheated. Sure there are some shocking images and inspired bits, but Taxidermia is about as meaningless and empty to me as a film can be. Director György Pálfi obviously takes inspiration from the likes of Terry Gilliam and Jean-Pierre Jeunet the way he simultaneously wallows in, and pretends to be above, the random, meaningless lunacy he films which your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine what the relationship is aside from being forced weirdness. A man who has sex with a dead pig and who can shoot fire out of his penis, an obese speed-eating competitor who seems to be…

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  Review by Joel Duscher ★★★★

  A movie that found a way to ruin sex, food and having a human body for me all in one neat 95 minute fucked up package.

  I was laughing AND wanting to spew AND feeling bad all at once!

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  Review by kynky ★½

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  26/100

  The most interesting, least repulsive segment of the entire film and the one that actually had promise was the one with the guy having sex with a dead pig. I can handle gross stuff, gore and bodily fluids but I just found this absolutely tedious.
  I guess that's the issue if you're going for shock value and hanging everything else on symbolism.

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