Body Melt

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Year:	1993
Country of origin:	Australia
Director:	Philip Brophy
Genre:	Melt movie
Starring:	Gerard Kennedy,  Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Regina Gaigalas
Rating:	3/5 or 5/5 - see below
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106450/
Tagline:	The first phase is hallucinogenic... the second phase is glandular... and the third phase is... BODY MELT
Favourite line:	"The first phase is hallucinogenic... the second phase is glandular... and the third phase is AHH, GAWD!"

A melt movie.
But where’s the melting?

The plot:
Welcome to Pebbles Court. Quiet. Unassuming. The pace of life is pleasant, verging on slow, and everyone seems to get along just fine.
One morning, awakening, the residents discover a new dietary supplement called Vimuville in their mailboxes.
Delighted, they wolf them down with gusto, awed by promises of supreme health, weight loss and general well-being.
What they don’t know is that Vimuville is really an experimental new drug, designed to create the perfect human being but, unbeknownst to the manufacturers, it has the unhappy side effect of creating bizarre and horrific mutations - liquefying flesh, elongating tongues, exploding stomachs, exploding penises, imploding heads, monstrous births, tentacles growing out of the face, living mucus, sentient placentas, and more besides.
Will anyone get out of Pebbles Court alive?

A strange one this.
Every review I have read suggests that this is an out and out gore-fest, with bucket-loads of guts, mucus and slime hurled at the screen, the intention clear: disgust the viewer.
Upon viewing here at Smell the Cult HQ, there was barely a sniff of the splatter, which was most disappointing as, when you take the melt out of a melt movie, all you are left with is a movie.
And who the fuck wants that?
I can only assume that this was a heavily censored version of the original, as this simply could not have garnered such a reputation.
Still, what remained was intriguing in itself, with enough satire running through its blackened heart to keep the mind motivated, even if the bile gland lay sadly dormant.
Australian horror is a firm favourite down our way, and this is clearly a fine example and, I am confident, is an 8 or 9 out of 10 movie in reality.
Shame the damned censors got their hands on this copy first.
Worth a look, all the same, just make sure you type the word ‘uncut’ into your ‘provider’ of choice.