646f9e108c Full-throttle splatter-ific Japanese cyberpunk science fiction/horror at its most aggressive, this mind-blower about alien parasites that turn their human hosts into slave &quot;Necroborgs&quot; will leave you dizzy and drained - in a good way. Directed by the duo Yudai Yamaguchi (Battlefield Baseball) and Jun&#39;ichi Yamamoto &quot;Meatball Machine&quot; is apparently a remake of Yamamoto&#39;s 1999 movie with the same name. I doubt I&#39;ll ever get a chance to see the original so I&#39;ll just stick commenting on this one. First of what is &quot;Meatball Machine&quot; ? A simple in noway pretentious low budget industrial splatter flick packed with great make up effects and gore. It&#39;s not something you&#39;ll end up writing books about but it&#39;s nevertheless entertaining if you dig this type of cinema.<br/><br/>&quot;Meatball Machine&quot; follows the well known plot. Boy loves girl but is too afraid to ask her on a date. Boy finally meets girl. Girl gets infected by a parasitic alien creature that turns her into a homicidal cyborg. Boy, in turn does also transform into said thing, and goes on a quest to save his love. Will he succeed? Who gives a damn,longthere is carnage and death I&#39;m satisfied.<br/><br/>The plot is simple, relatively clichéd but it does it&#39;s job well enough setting the movie&#39;s course straight forward into a bloody confrontation between the two leading characters. There is a subplot focusing on how the parasite that infected the girl came into to their lives. And yes it too luckily shows more violence. I&#39;m happy. Acting is what you would expect from a no budget splatter film. It&#39;s not exactly painful for the ears but it&#39;s not exactly good either.<br/><br/>The movie&#39;s main attraction besides the violence and gore (like I haven&#39;t mentioned that enough already) are the cyborg designs. Done by Keita Amemiya who&#39;s work in creating outlandish creatures and costumes for both movies and video-games is well known. The necroborgsthey are called in &quot;Meatball Machine&quot; look stunningly detailed. Without the usage of CGI Amemiya&#39;s designs are a breathtaking fusion of flesh and metal, painfully awesome in their appearance. Able to transforms various parts of the body into cool weaponry suchsaws, rocket launchers, blood-firing shotguns and so on and so on. Though you can easily recognize the cheapness of the film, necroborgs are A-movie class.<br/><br/>&quot;Meatball Machine&quot; is &quot;Tetsuo The Iron Man&quot; mixed up with &quot;Alien&quot; all done in low budget and extra ketchup mode. It&#39;s an immensely entertaining film that disregards modern special effects and proves that the splatter genre is still alive and kicking. Directors and writers Yudai Yamaguchi who also wrote another classic flick versus 2000 and Jun&#39;ichi Yamamoto have created a gem in Meatball Machine.<br/><br/>Starring Issei Takahashi who was also in other classic flicks, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004.<br/><br/>Also starring Aoba Kawai.<br/><br/>I enjoyed the special effects.<br/><br/>If you enjoyed thismuchI did then check out other classic alien creature flicks, Alien 1979, Aliens 1986, Alien: Resurrection 1997, Peacemaker 1990, Alien Raiders 2008, AVP: Alien vs. Predator 2004, Altered 2006, Avatar 2009, Bad Taste 1987, Battle Los Angeles 2011, The Blob 1988, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977, Cloverfield 2008, Dark City 1998, The Day of the Triffids 1962, District 9 2009, Doom 2005, The Faculty 1998, Feast 2005, Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds 2008, The Hidden 1987, Dark Angel 1990, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, The Mist 2007, Night of the Creeps 1986, Phantoms 1998, Predator 1987, Predator 2 1990, Predators 2010, Progeny 1998, Signs 2002, Skyline 2010, Society 1989, Species III 2004, Splinter 2008, The Thing 1982, This Island Earth 1955, Dark Breed 1996, Dark Skies 2013, Honeymoon 2014, The Thing 2011, Super 8 2011 and War of the Worlds 1953.
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