The new horror movie from the director of CUBE (Vincenzo Natali), producer by Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) and starring Adrian Brody and Sarah Polly. This is supposed to be a horror movie, but honestly I haven't laughed that much or that hard in a long, long time. FUNNIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!
The story: a husband and wife scientistfic research team is about to have their funding cut so they take a radical step of injecting human DNA into a genetic hybrid project. What grows out of it is something not human, but kind of human, and they have to hide it (it's illegal) and care for it as if it were their daughter. Except it isn't human and begins exhibiting weird and dangerous behavior.
How was it?
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!!
Now, I don't think it was supposed to be, but with a little tweaking to the editing and a different soundtrack this movie would be a cult hit on par with Rocky Horror and Showgirls.
*** VERY SPOILER HEAVY *** WARNING ** VERY SPOILER HEAVY ***
The movie starts out okay. They are trying to find some antidote thing. He wants kids, she doesn't. Then it gets funny. They need to have a great presentation to get more funding, but instead it goes horribly wrong and the two weird creatures begin fighting and kill each other and then knock the glass cage over causing it to shatter and spray the audience with glass and blood. And I mean, spray! It's the kind of over the top thing you'd expect from Sam Raimi. Hilarious! Then a bunch of weird stuff -- they put in their DNA (why?) and then this things grows. And of course it becomes a kid in about a day and the woman starts treating it like a child even though it's way to creepy to be a kid. Still, it has some of her DNA so maybe there's a bonding thing. And the funny thing is they keep trying to make the movie scary, but nothing ever happens! Like there's a scene where this thing faces off with a cat and you think it's going to eat the cat, but no it just gives the cat a hug...which is werid because later it does eat a cat. Anyway, they eventually have to take it to an abandoned barn the woman has (conveniently) and she and the creature get close until they don't. Suddenly the experiment/child is acting up so the woman/mom starts acting weird and wants to mutilate it and meanwhile the male scientist/dad who didn't even seem to like it before is suddenly dancing with it and then one night...yeah, the dad does the experiment. Right there on the barn floor. I mean, this thing is bald and has a tail and even opens WINGS and the guy is still nailing her. WINGS!!! Dude, I don't know...I've been beer goggling before but even as my most drunken state I couldn't do it with something with wings and a tail! And if that wasn't funny enough the woman catches them and he tries to explain it to her. There they after, right after she has caught his screwing their experiment/child/wing-tail genetic freak creature, and they are talking about it??? How is she not flipping out and screaming and crying. She even says "You crossed the line." Really? When did he cross the line? When he had sex with not-his wife or when he started screwing things with tails and wings that are genetic freak mutants?? To be that is so beyond "the line, so beyond the line that is past the line and past that line and the next line too, that I was howling during that scene. I mean, I was on the floor! I think I pissed myself it was so funny. In fact, I think I might have pooed a little. And then the guys says something like "We changed the rules." He's trying to explain it!!!! Like what rule change makes it okay to screw a weird wing-tail mutant???
FUNNIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!!!
But as a drama/horror it was a complete fail. There is a good idea in there and actually the parenting metaphore was interesting at first, but by the time the wife is mutilating the thign and the dad is screwing it...what the hell parallel for parenting is THAT??? And the science is all BS. It isn't science fiction it's gobbledy-gook. Apparently no one on the set had ever passed a high school bio course because everything was just stupid. As science fiction it fail, as horror it failed, as metaphore is failed. But it was funny as hell.
*** RECOMMEND (but only if you understand it is a comedy) ***
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