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Retrospective

Body Melt

From Philip Brophy

With Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Vincent Gil, Regina Gaigalas

Year 1993

Duration 81 min.

Language English

Dumb Films present: A grotesque, cartoonish, fragmented piece of cinematic nonsense by Philip Brophy, the man who coined the term body horror and does it full justice in his feature film debut. With BODY MELT, the title says it all.

An employee at a health spa tries to warn the residents of the stuffy suburb of Homesville about illegal vitamin experiments. But the whistleblower soon becomes the victim of a gruesome experiment himself. An overdose of the very substance he is trying to expose triggers a horrific and deadly mutation of his body. Two detectives take on the case …