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(aka "Body Trash")
directed by Philip Brophy
Australian 1993
Residents of the placid
suburban cul-de-sac of
Pebbles Court have
started receiving
unexpected samples of a
new and experimental
vitamin, manufactured by
a strange health spa
named Vimuville.
However, shortly after
adding the mysterious
green powder to their
diets, users begin to
experience strange and
increasingly macabre
visions, and worse,
their bodies start to
mutate, ooze, and
eventually melt! As
visits from the coroner
to the sleepy street
become a nearly daily
experience, Detective
Sam Phillips becomes
increasingly suspicious
of the goings on at
Vimuville, but will he
be able to uncover its
diabolical motives
before the whole of
Australia is subjected
to BODY MELT?
Writer/director/composer
Philip Brophy's
notorious slime-filled
cult classic BODY
MELT remains one of
the last great
Ozploitation films.
Packed with gross-out
gore effects, biting
black comedy, and a
throbbing techno-esque
score. *** The owner of a posh Australian health clinic uses the residents of a small suburban community named Pebble Court as a test market for some revolutionary new vitamin supplements. Unbeknownst to the locals, the pills have some particularly unpleasant side effects, as illustrated by the messy death of her boyfriend after he discovers the truth and is given a lethal dose. Before long, the locals are beginning to mutate, melt, explode, or turn into deformed psychopathic monsters. As Pebble Court becomes a miniature apocalypse, a pair of detectives plod their way through one bloody massacre after another before finally stumbling onto the diabolical Dr. Carrera (Ian Smith), inventor of the lethal vitamins and numerous other medical disasters. The odd, disjointed and episodic feel of this film is due to the script being assembled out of four separate stories by director/co-writer Philip Brophy. Without a solid framing story or sympathetic lead to give them cohesion (aside from the obvious premise that Carrera's drugs are not particularly healthy), the disparate vignettes fall apart faster than the doctor's victims. That said, there is enough wry humor, frantic pacing and boisterous gore effects to sustain horror audiences' interest for the abbreviated running time. |
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Theatrical Release: October 1993 (Sitges Film Festival)
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Runtime | 1:19:03 (4% PAL speedup) | 1:22:27 | 1:22:48.713 |
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1.78:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 44,205,008,692 bytesFeature: 25,464,753,408 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.86 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio | English (Dolby Digital 2.0) |
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DTS-HD Master Audio
English 3818 kbps 5.1 /
48 kHz / 3818 kbps /
24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps /
24-bit)
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English 128 kbps 1.0 /
48 kHz / 128 kbps / DN
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Subtitles | None | None | English (SDH), None |
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storyboard gallery Blu-ray Release Date: September 25th, 2018Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters: 5 |
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were obtained directly from the Blu-ray disc.
ADDITION: Vinegar Syndrome - Region FREE - Blu-ray (September 2018): T he new Vinegar Syndrome Region FREE Blu-ray release is advertised as "Newly scanned & restored in 2k from its 16mm original camera negative (exclusive to our release)". It is in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio and shows more information in the frame on the right and left wedges and a sliver missing from the top and bottom. The 1080P is an obvious advancement over the DVDs with superior colors - warmer skin tones - and an overall darker image.
Vinegar Syndrome use a robust DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround track and the effects are fairly crisp with imposing depth and a few head-turning separations imbedded in the sound design. The score is by the director, Philip Brophy - who actually has done a few films scores - and it is verbose but sounds appropriate and enjoyably suitable. He wrote, with Maria Kozic, the song Body Melt and Masterpieces plus some will recognize Deep Purple's Highway Star played during the film. This transfer has optional English (SDH) subtitles on the Region FREE Blu-ray release, playable worldwide.
Extensive extras from Vinegar Syndrome. There are two commentaries for the films, the first with writer/director/composer Philip Brophy, writer/producer Rod Bishop and producer Daniel Scharf having some fun while exploring details of the production and the final product. The second commentary track has Brophy with more of a focus on the sound design and film score. It is good for budding students of cinema. "Melting Away: The Deconstruction of Body Melt" is a new 39-minute 2018 featurette with Philip Brophy and Rod Bishop talking more about the evolution of the film and its impact and critical reaction. "Body Building: The Making of Body Melt" is an 8-minute, 2018, interview with Daniel Scharf - one of the producers of Body Melt. "Adrenal Glands" is also new - it's an interview with actor Neil Foley and runs over 10-minutes. "Making Bodies Melt: The Making of Body Melt" runs more than 1/2 hour and has some B-roll and preparation where the 17-minute "Behind-the-Scenes Featurette" sees it from another angle. There are extensive behind-the-scenes stills and prop, and complete storyboard galleries and a trailer.
This is an impressive
Blu-ray
release of a film that was not just fluff but had an intelligence behind the
realization with suburban parodies, over-the-top gore-effects, a sneaking
homage to exploitation. Lots of fun and easy to see why it is such a cult
favorite. Vinegar Syndrome's
Blu-ray
efforts here will be greatly appreciated. Absolutely recommended!
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