At 2x it felt super slow.
Thanatomorphose is like a really gross, fearless version of Contracted, which came out just over a year later, and must have been inspired by this.
The movie has a very simple, almost nonexistent, plot: girl begins to rot, rots more, the end. Every part of the film is sparse: small cast, almost no dialog, low light. About all it has in abundance is nudity and gore. Almost no violence here, instead we're given loads of bodily fluids: piss, shit, vomit, jizz, puss. The music is an interesting mix of sad violins, and harsh noise during dream sequences. The beginning could be called boring with its long shots of nothing happening, but once our lead character - played by the beautiful Kayden Rose - begins to decompose, there is a steady momentum.
I get it, minimalistic, graphic, indie body horror is not going to appeal to many people. For me, I thought it was great. To make a feature film that really commits to the premise, and doesn't care about explaining itself, well, it's pretty impressive to make that work.
Furthermore, I have seen many movies, there are some that have a large budget, but are totally forgettable. This movie, I will never forget; I was deeply affected by it, and that's hard to accomplish. This leads me to suspect there is more to the simple story than just gore. As to what it is, I don't know. Though, maybe it's just what it appears to be: a girl rotting to the point of death.
Shout by sp1tiVIP OG 13BlockedParent2013-11-03T01:12:09Z
So I put that one on my watchlist due to some interesting sounding reviews. I was a bit reluctant due to the very graphic stills avaiable but if it isn't "mean" ultraviolence I can deal with it. Anyways, this should have been a short film - at best. There isn't any plot here and it's even predictable at times when it doesn't play the artsy card. It's raison d'être seems only to be shocking (which it isn't). Having a (unrealisticly) decomposing woman calling a guy over only to want him to fuck her seems really dumb. Not even the special effects are that great which the editing and often out of focus camera doesn't add any value to. I can imagine that this was inspired by either some death metal cover art or Merzbow's Venereology which would explain the noisy inbetweens.