It’s
a sunny day in suburbia. Suddenly a hideously deformed dying
man disrupts the peace, crashing his car in the Pebbles
Court neighborhood, the better part of Homesville. He’s
the victim of the experimental drug Vimuville, marketed
as a “dietary supplement” which has apparently
malfunctioned. He has arrived too late to warn the population
of Homesville not to try the pill that was dropped in their
mailbox by a respectable pharmaceutical company. Unfortunately
the folks of Homesville are suckers for freebies and they
too start deforming, mutating, exploding and otherwise experiencing
sudden death syndrome. A local health spa becomes the nerve
center for the horrific outbreak as the fate of the people
of Homesville spirals down a catastrophic path of no return.
Full of shocking surprises, imaginative photography and
layered with gore, Body Melt, compared to John Carpenter’s
“In The Mouth of Madness”, offers a horrific
vision of lustful teenagers, old ladies, paranoid health
staff and ordinary families going through the merciless
deteriorating torture of Body Melt.
