Episode 29: ‘Body Melt’-Smells Like Cinematic Sadness Podcast

On this week’s installment of the long-delayed follow-up to our ’Smells Like Cinematic Sadness‘ series, co-host Damon Shell and I look back at ‘Body Melt,’ a 1994 Ozploitation horror cheapie about dietary supplements with very unfortunate side effects.

A very odd and at-times off-putting exercise into the splatstick oeuvre ala pre-LOTR Peter Jackson, ‘Body Melt’ is full of bad gross-out effects, a plot that never quite comes together and a tone that makes it hard to figure out what is intentionally funny vs. what inspires unintended guffaws.

It’s some truly really weird s**t that could only come from the land down under, and we dive headfirst into this grotesque curiosity that has lost none of its power to keep your attention, making you queasy and cracking you up in equal measure (fun fact: it’s a personal fave of Quentin Tarantino).

So check it out via the embed and podcast platform of your choice below.

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