Thanatomorphose (2012)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 99 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Éric Falardeau
Starst: Émile Beaudry, Eryka Cantieri and Roch-Denis Gagnon
IMDb score:
4,6 (2.445)
Releasedate: 4 October 2012
Thanatomorphose plot
"Rotting from the inside out"
A woman, who never leaves her apartment, wakes up in a very unfortunate situation. Her death has occurred but her spirit is still very much alive. The physical decline begins and her flesh begins to rot.
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Halcyon
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- 9952 messages
- 0 votes
Thanatomorphosis, loosely translated "formation of death", or something like that. The title certainly reflects exactly what the film is about. Over the course of an hour and a half, we see how a character physically deteriorates, starting with a small wound that infects her entire body until she completely rots away. It is an almost philosophical concept that you as a filmmaker could give quite a lot of depth to, if you wanted to. That was clearly not the intention of this director. What we see is a bare registration - you can take that literally, because dialogue or music are extremely scarce - of someone decomposing, analogous to a strange mold spot on the wall. That metaphor completely passed me by. In any case, the film lacks substance and the premise is not interesting enough (even visually) to keep you interested for an hour and a half. The fact that the effects are poorly made doesn't help either. For a moment I had flashbacks to Nekromantik, but at least Buttgereit still had something to say. This director clearly suffers from a poverty of ideas. I seriously wonder what the purpose of this was, other than showcasing some gross scenes that completely miss their purpose due to amateurism. The result is a long-winded film that makes someone's death a particularly boring event.
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Tonypulp
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- 21231 messages
- 4608 votes
Insanely good. UnearthedFilms certainly provides a nice selection of everything dirty (and cheap 
). In terms of body decay, this is the highest achievable in my opinion. That ending is sublime! Mighty gore, rarely seen so good in a body horror. It also has its place in terms of content. Woman is clearly an object of desire, one that is abused as a hole to dump your mess into. A human manure pit. When she literally changes into that, she discovers her own desires again. Causes a sick, sexual dissolution of the body. Where pain turns into pleasure. The few tight experimental intermezzos with a somewhat heavier sound design break up the slow pace a bit.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Special horror film that clearly does its best to push the boundaries, but director Éric Falardeau takes a rather idiosyncratic approach. Fans of hard-hitting body horror will get their money's worth during the second half (specifically the last half hour), but the entire process leading up to it is completely uninteresting. It doesn't help that the main characters act poorly and the pace is almost impossibly slow, often just to show some images from the protagonist's daily life. The pity is that I'm not really interested in what exactly she has for breakfast or what else she gets up to sexually, which makes at least 50 minutes of the film negligible. I also found the experimental interruptions in which Falardeau tries something out with audio and visuality to have little added value, especially because they are randomly inserted.
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