There's a shot in which we see two rivers joining to become one; one is cloudy with dirt while the other is clear, but after combining into one the clear water disappears. It's a beautiful and subtle metaphor for the way that war (and violence more generally) clouds everything, destroying the beauty of nature.
This movie reminded me a lot of a Terrence Malick movie: the way there is so much focus on the tactile, feet in mud, hands in…
If Street Trash and Trainspotting had a sentient killer placenta baby, it’d be Body Melt.
It was definitely fun, but it felt oddly a little reserved in terms of gore and actual bodies melting. You can’t mention that people could explode without having people explode! The music, sound design, and editing are awesome though!
HOOPTOBER #8: Satan/Devil-Centered Films
There are two things that bug me about the movie:
1) The female character becomes sickly and the plot is taken over by her boyfriend in the last act
2) The use of people with real deformities as a representation of Hell
If you can overlook those two icky bits, the movie is pretty great. The ending is stellar and is a worthy payoff of the really twisty and effective mystery.
Extra points for being the only horror movie I'll probably watch this year featuring a cat birthday party!
