Smell the Movies
Smell the TV
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Year: | 1991 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Eric Louzil, Donald G. Jackson |
| Genre: | Horror comedy |
| Starring: | Brick Bronsky, Lisa Gaye, Leesa Rowland |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101591/ |
| Tagline: | Student Power Meets Nuclear power! |
| Favourite line: | "Just because Victoria had lips on her belly didn't stop me from loving her." |
If you’ve never seen a melt movie, you could do worse than starting here.
The plot:
Following the chaotic ending to Nuke ‘Em High Part 1, Tromaville’s nuclear reactor has finally been rebuilt and, thank the lords, the designers sensibly incorporated the town’s college into its fabric.
Roger Smith, hunk and college reporter, discovers that a secret scientific programme is underway in the bowels of the plant, the college students the subjects.
See, crazy Professor Holt wants to design the perfect subhumanoid, but problems are arising. Whilst the second pair of lips are operating just fine, positioned as they are on the subjects’ bellies, the people themselves have the unhappy tendency of melting from within, geysers of green gunk exploding from every orifice.
Now Roger’s fallen in love with Victoria and, to his horror, discovers that she has already been transformed.
Can Roger save her, before the meltdown begins?
For those unfamiliar with Troma movies – and shame on you if that’s the case – they are notorious for their slipshod attitude towards production standards and acting. Indeed, for the most part, Troma films have the feel of amateur or student projects, made for fun, just because they can.
Which is great.
Famous titles include Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, The Toxic Avenger and Cannibal! The Musical.
Dedicated to ultra-realism, the focus here is on vérité cinema, tonally similar to hard-hitting , biting social commentaries such as Nil By Mouth, My Left Foot and American History X.
I’m kidding, of course!
Whilst there is social commentary if you choose to search for it, here the aim is simply manic entertainment.
The weapons of choice?
Explicit gore and soft-core titillation.
Whilst not as riotously splatterific as the first one, this still manages to feel decadent, symptomatic of a society spiralling out of control, all excess and wantonness, splurged onto the screen for our viewing revulsion.
Al Qaeda – if it really existed – would be truly appalled.
Awful in every quantifiable regard, it’s the most straight ahead entertaining film I’ve seen in some time.
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