Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

A couple has sex. As the guy is about to leave, he steps into a nail and bleeds all over the place. The girl takes care of the injury. She is an artists living in a small apartment working on something that looks like a head sculpture. She goes to bed. On the ceiling is some rot that looks like female private parts. She pleases herself and develops a rash on her inner thigh. She looses some of her hair. When she showers the next morning she has some hematomas. One of her finger nails comes off. That evening she hosts a party for her lame friends. One of the guys there has the hots for her. Her guy gets jealous and confronts her later and forces her to aggressive sex. Later at night she wakes up and vomits blood on him. He leaves and she stays alone for several days as her hematomas grow larger. She vomits more frequently. When the guy who is interested in her stops by to visit she's looking in serious bad shape. Nonetheless she's horny and performs a sex act on him and again ends up vomiting. The guy wants to take her to the hospital so she kills him.While her body continues to waste away, she has nightmares, but just accepts her condition. Her ear comes off, her finger breaks off, her entire body is becoming necrotic. Her joints start separating, but she just stores the body parts in jars or glues them back. Later she uses duct tape to tape herself together. At this point maggots are coming out of her body. Her guy shows up but she kills him instead. Her decline continues.That's all there is to Thanatomorphose--a woman's body completely degrading. There's very little dialogue and if there is any it's completely insignificant. We never find out what's causing her condition. The rot on the ceiling may be of significance. It too expands as her condition worsens Her nightmares were filmed in some awful 80s visual effect. What bothered me the most though was how dark this movie was filmed. In horror movies no on ever bothers to turn the lights on. These people are perfectly happy to spend their lives in darkness. Here, the girl even covers up the windows so during the few scenes filmed during the day we don't get to see much either.On the good side though, this movie does get to you, after all, you're watching an hour and a half of decomposition. And this isn't something you're going to see in any other movie. So the director deserves some kudos for going through with the idea. It even makes you think about death a little. The effects are pretty good. Occasionally she looks burned rather than necrotic, but the final scene is excellent and reminded me of the the goriest movie ever Bone Sickness. For a lower budget extreme horror movie, Thanatomophose works.

Possible Spoilers ahead! A Canadian horror film from 2012 and tonight's movie is 'Thanatomorphose'Thanatomorphose is an hellenic word meaning the visible signs of an organism's decomposition caused by death. One day, a young and beautiful girl a wakes up and finds her flesh rotting.'Thanatomorphose' while interesting in premise it would have been better if it were a short film because the film had potential but it squandered it on showing the uninteresting lives of your average Canadians, and a idiot main character that walks around naked half the movie and when she starts rotting doesn't go to the hospital but instead walks from room to room rotting and naked. Hell that small segment of the film is the only good part the rest is boring and uninteresting the characters don't even have names, the acting is poor, the writing matches the acting, the camera work isn't that bad but the lighting needs some serious work, it seems whoever handled the lighting doesn't know that you need more than one light for anything to be visible, the sound design sucks its hard to hear what people are saying, the music (or lack there of) is good for the little bit we get. The only good thing here is the effects and those are even somewhat laughable at times. The film really doesn't get good until about an hour in and even at that point when it gets gory and entertaining you are still thinking to yourself is this chick seriously not thinking about going to the hospital. The best parts of the film add up to about 20 minutes. On the gore meter from one to ten One being something like 'The Corpse Grinders' and Ten being something like 'Braindead'. 'Thanatomorphose' is a 5 really its not as gory as it is grotesque, I'll give it that much. 'Thanatomorphose' isn't really anything new and if you just gotta watch it then go ahead me on the other hand I'm gonna watch a good body horror film, 'Slime City' maybe 'Eraserhead'. The film tries to seem like some kind of genius erotic body horror slasher art film 1/5 or 2/10

I loved Nekromantik, loved Der Todesking, and rolled my eyes at August Underground, but Thanatomorphose is hands down the most disgusting thing I have ever allowed to slither across my retina. It's full of flaws and I was about to turn it off after the first act, but then I started to "get" it and it's a pretty great underground effort. Flaws first: script was God-awful. I would have liked this a lot more if it had either been in French or if I didn't understand English. Second, the acting was awful. Indie directors, if you're out there, listen to me: spend money on the actors. I'm telling you. You can fix anything in that frame except bad acting. God's honest truth. Also, I hated the score and the editing was weird in the first act. There were strange jumpy cuts through a lot of the scenes that didn't make any sense. Last, not all of the fantasy sequences really worked. Some of those could have been cut. I also would have cut the faux-artsy cinematography sequences as they serve no discernible purpose and it pulled me out of the moment. All of those notes are fairly normal sins for underground horror. If you have a background in that kind of filmmaking those problems might not bother you as much as they would someone who is used to Hollywood-slick style. All that being said, I think it's a solid movie. I read it as a metaphor for drug addiction. I think a case could be made for it being a metaphor for depression also. The main character is literally self-destructing, but her friends seem unwilling to help or unsure how to help. The hospital comes up more than once, and it is obvious that she should go, but with a person who has an addiction (or depression if you read it like that) friends often don't know what to do or how to help. She tries fixing it herself. She self-medicates. She literally places bandages on huge open wounds. She calls for help, but then lashes out at the person who comes to help her. She is listless and bound by inertia, but bizarrely industrious when it comes to nursing her illness (addiction). She's taking pills and jabbing herself with a needle, so I'm leaning toward addiction reference over depression. So, if you decide to see it watch it with that in mind. If you're not a fan of underground indie horror stay far away.

I have come to love French horror films over the last 10 years. The French have really honed in on the sub horror genre of body horror. They did a delightful job with BabyBlood back in the early 90's and then really turned on the heat in the 2000s with terrific films like In my Skin, Martyrs, Frontiers and Inside. The French Canadians got involved with the morbidly tasteless cadavers in 2008 so I was very excited to embrace this new French Canadian film Thanatomorphose. I was impressed and the 100 minutes went by so quick considering the pace of the film. The gore and f/x were fantastic for the budget and the acting was great as well especially by our main lead. Yeah she could've done a few more things like call the bloody hospital but then we wouldn't be treated to such sanguineous delights. My main problem with the film is I wish they were speaking French instead of English but nonetheless there isn't much dialogue in this film. Not for most people but for people that enjoyed early Cronenberg or Clive Barker.