The American President (Chicken George) learns that the Lithuanian gouvernment is to hit Reedsville, Texas with the atom bomb, so he calls the local mad scientist Dr. Calypso (Furly Travis) and tasks him to save the city - without anyone noticing. The good doctor thinks since the atom bomb is of the Devil, and to beat the Devil one needs to have innocence incarnate - as in the blood of a human child. So he injects his assistant (Rebekah Porter) with an insta-pregnancy serum, and within minutes she births a daughter (also Furly Travis) who grows rather rapidly - and of course, things soon go out of hands ... and that said, maybe the town doesn't even deserve saving, as it seems to be inhabited by low life and perverts, like the relatively innocent Junior High (Paxton Gilmore) who nevertheless drives his girlfriend (Laura McKee) into a fatal accident, to gay hairdresser Bosco (C. Paul Cardoza) who tries to rape Junior High at a party, to Junior High's own dad (Tayer Cranor) who lusts after his own son, to nymphomaniac Natty (Shauna Nunn) who cheats on her husband Leo (Steve Jones) quite openly and sometimes for money, money that Leo routinely loses gambling, so much so that he owes local gangster bigwig Sloop (Tony Perez) a lot of money and accepts to become a hitman in his employ - and that all is only the tiny tip of the iceberg ...

Now Meat Machine isn't a film for everybody, it's loud, it's garishly coloured, much of the humour is on the gross-out side of things, its performances are ham to the hilt and the casting doesn't always feel on point - but all of this feels entirely intentional, pretty much the backbone of what feels like a soap opera on speed, or a mixed genre piece seen through the lense of surrealism, because one thing's for sure, Meat Machine has without a doubt found its own voice. And whilte this still doesn't make it a film for everybody, those into the weirder, slightly insane side of cinema will find plenty to enjoy here.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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