I first read about the Australlian film Body Melt in an issue of Fangoria Magazine. The article was peppered with supergross photos of goopy, melted heads. When I saw that it was out on video, I just had to rent it. Oh, well, you live and learn. The first 10 minutes were great - opening with a TV commercial for a health farm/vacation resort, then cutting to a sweat-soaked, couple, apparently taking a break from some sexual activities. The woman, seen as the spokesperson in the aforementioned commercial, injects the delerious guy with some sort of syrum. We next hear her telling someone over the phone that her injections will assure the guy's death by the morning. The injected guy looks up an address on a computer, leaves the health farm and, after a brief stop at a convenience store, leads a high speed chase that ends with his crashing into a van at the end of a cul-de-sac.
Oh, did I mention that this whole time his neck was disinegrating?
The basic premise is that the health club is experimenting with some superdrugs, designed to alter the body's gene structure. They're disguising the drugs as vitamins and experimenting on the resort's guests. The man residing at the address on the computer receives a free sample of said vitamins in the mail. So much for the set up. What we get for the next hour or so is a lot of dull dialogue, a couple of young dudes who run into a family of inbreds when they get lost on the way to the resort and a couple of cops asking a lot of questions.
Finally, in the last 15 or so minutes of the film, the body melting begins and, I must admit, is pretty gross. The whole inbred family sequence (which seemed to be dropped in from a different movie when I was watching it) finally is linked into the plot and the cops arrive on the scene. Topped off with a trite twist ending,
Body Melt seemed to be stretched out way too far. Apparently, it was based on a short story and probably should've been a shorter film. When they finally pile on the cool FX at the end of the movie, they were all of the scenes I had already seen stills of in the magazine article I read. If you want to get some cheap thrills watching some gorey effects, rent Body Melt and fast forward through the middle.
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