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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★ 7

  It doesn’t matter if you eat yourself to death or if you self-immolate, the system will use your remains as fuel for the machine. A grotesque reminder that there is no escape. No hope. Only flesh and vomit.

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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 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 Jodie Stokes ★★★ 9

  "I have a vomiting technique named after me!"

  Taxidermia is a paradoxical film in the sense it's rammed full of provocative shit but still manages to teeter on boring, which is similar to how I felt about Salò when I watched it for the first (and only) time many years ago. What would otherwise be a tedious affair remains vaguely interesting purely due to the films vulgarity, sustained weirdness and unpredictable temperament.

  The film presents itself as a three part anthology of sorts, with interconnected stories culminating in a demented spin on taxidermy (it was worth the wait). Undoubtedly, some people will micro-analyse every facet of Taxidermia and extract some hidden socio-political context, but I have to (derisively) laugh at a director having the audacity to make binging, purging, bestiality and celestial masterbation pretentious. As its name would suggest, Taxidermia certainly is an oddity.

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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 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 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 Cusack ★★★

  Weird ass movie. Pretty graphic too. The effects aren’t always the greatest looking but if you can stomach throwing up, body parts being lopped off, nudity, and bizarre visuals you’ll get through this alright. Makes me never want to go to Hungary, I’ll tell you that.

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  Review by NOFAC3 👋😃🔪 ★★★½ 2

  HE DID WHAT?!!! 

  This film is straight up nauseating!
  If you can get through the first half of this film without feeling the acidic & pukey aftertaste of your dinner a couple hours ago, then congratulations! You’ve watched enough fucked up films and mukbang videos on YouTube!

  The whole vibe of this film is ✨DISGUSTING✨ but make it aesthetic! 🤪✌️
  It follows 3 men:
  The horny Peeping Tom - grandfather 
  The extreme mukbang champion - father
  The taxidermy artist - son

  They’re all messed up is so many levels! But the real kicker is the son, taking his vengeance and unusual hobby to the extreme.

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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 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…