2006 · horror · sci-fi · action
Meatball Machine
Directed by Jun'ichi Yamamoto, Yudai Yamaguchi1h 30m2006
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Our read: Meatball Machine (2006) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal horror · sci-fi · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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“You crave over-the-top Japanese splatter with parasites, gore and a twisted love story.”
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