{"id":16891,"date":"2024-10-21T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16891"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:09:48","slug":"body-melt-1993-philip-brophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16891","title":{"rendered":"Body Melt (1993, Philip Brophy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love finding uniquely bizarre movies like this one, wacko in all the best ways.  Our pharma villain is introduced nude, injecting her man with a serum that will turn him goopy by sunrise.  After looking up an address on his rad computer, he makes it all the way to the cul-de-sac where he was trying to warn(?) the residents that they&#8217;re all unwitting test subjects of the secret drug.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/melt3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s vacation time, and the cul-de-saquers head out on their adventures.  Slick-haired Paul (narrator of the Adam Elliot shorts) goes to the airport and sees people who aren&#8217;t really there.  Two young guys on a road trip stop to get a new windshield where freaky kids are eating kangaroo adrenal glands.  Family of four start melting (the son dies unrelatedly in a freak skateboarding accident), while the pregnant couple stay home and experience placenta-attacks.  I&#8217;m not sure of the drug&#8217;s intended purpose, but the lead scientist&#8217;s ex-partner (father of the gland-chewing kids) ran off with the special ingredient that makes people not explode.  Too much raver music, otherwise a perfect movie, the sole feature by a gang of art weirdos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/melt1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention it&#8217;s Australian?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/melt2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love finding uniquely bizarre movies like this one, wacko in all the best ways. Our pharma villain is introduced nude, injecting her man with a serum that will turn him goopy by sunrise. After looking up an address on his rad computer, he makes it all the way to the cul-de-sac where he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,187,1422,2755],"class_list":["post-16891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-australia","tag-mad-scientist","tag-parrots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}