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Many comments on this film out there have been derogative, blaming its slow tempo and overall lack of action. I guess these critics just missed the point entirely. Thanatomorphose is NOT a movie about zombies. Viewers should not expect to see Romero-style walking dead running, or shambling after their prey. The slow tempo is, IMO, completely intentional, in phase with the actual body decomposition process... Interestingly, the process starts concurrently with the discovery, by the female sculptor, or her sudden lack of interest in her art. Also, and that's the main flaw of the movie for me, the connexion between the decomposition process and the growing lust is obvious, but difficult to grasp for the viewer. I guess the whole movie is probably a metaphor for aging: the body corruption is inevitable, while both feeling of love and lust -which are recurrent in Thanatomorphose- might grow stronger in some cases. Beyond these comments, a warning to all would-be viewers: it's a tough one to watch. Put it this way: if you watch it with your friends next Friday, and none of them makes fun of you after it, then they are REAL friends...

The marketing would have you believe that 'Thanatomorphose' somehow resembled a David Cronenberg movie, based on how it's a 'horror' film about the human body (and the disgusting ways it can be mutilated). However, that is where the similarity ends. Cronenberg's films also had a story and engaging characters. This has neither.

The two main characters spend so much time wandering round their apartment naked, you may be forgiven for thinking they're nudists. In fact... it gets a bit annoying in the end as there's clearly no reason for it all the time (like cleaning the flat in the nude etc). The story is about a woman whose body starts to slowly decay. Here's where the good make-up comes in, as it is pretty disgusting (about the film's only plus point). You may feel some sympathy for her if she was a bit more sensible. I imagine that if such a horrifying affliction descended on any one of us, the first thing we'd do is seek medical attention. She doesn't. Even when a friend comes calling and sees she's clearly unwell, she refuses to go to the hospital with him. Therefore we start to lose sympathy for her plight if she's clearly that stupid. Her boyfriend is not so daft - merely horrible. He's violent and a user - hardly hero material.

If you're looking for various gross scenes, you'll find them here. However, if you want talking, decent characters and a story, move along...

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There is no reason on earth to sit through this God awful movie. I somehow made it to the end, with deep regrets for wasting my valuable time. A woman living alone in an apartment, where the entire film takes place; I guess the director had a very small budget, has sex with a very nasty man who treats her badly. After he leaves, the woman's health problems begin. With no explanation, a fingernail falls out, she vomits repeatedly and clumps of hair come off of her scalp. Black and blue marks appear all over her body. Instead of visiting a hospital, our heroine just wanders from room to room while naked, and nothing to remedy the situation. Maggot crawl from open sores and blood oozes out, landing on the hard wood floors. A couple of male friends appear and try to help, but they do not succeed. The music is loud and intrusive, and the flashes in between look like Nine Inch Nails videos from The Downward Spiral. Buy that album, but avoid this garbage.

I watched this movie a few months ago, when I was going through a phase of trying to find low-budget "gems", as there is plenty of unheralded talent out there. As stated in the plot summary, it is a movie about a woman who slowly rots away. That's it. There is no more to the premise. The audience is not informed as to why, there is no climax, and to conclusion. The movie throws out the fundamentals of story-telling, yet still seems to tell to tell a story. I suppose I could try to explain it as a phenomenological attempt at movie-making, but I think I would be deluding myself. there simply is no story. Low budget movies really have to have something special to make up for the lack of funds. in the absence of resources, you must have a great script, great acting, great cinematography, or a combination thereof.

Thanatomorphose has none of these. None.

I hate to be so harsh, as I am sure quite a few people made a great effort to produce this film. Sadly, their efforts were (IMO) misguided.

First, I saw "Contracted". Loved that one, was drawn into it little by little, wanting to see more, to see where it is heading and the destination left me speechless.

Afterwards, hearing that it might have been copied from one called "Thanatomorphose", which, was supposed to be even better, I was as happy as a horror fan can be. So thank you people for getting my hopes high! I'll be forever grateful to you! NOT!

The movie is bad, it is just one bad movie. The plot as thin as it can get, the character depth is pretty much 0, dialogue missing, the actions, or lack of actions, amazing, overall, how can anyone say that this, is better than Contracted?!?

I am truly amazed! Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge horror fan, since ever, seen hundreds of them and always crave for more, but not this, not this at all. And to be put in the horror section? Really? Why? Cause of the graphic content? It's somewhere between gore and torture porn. Seriously!

Listen, and listen carefully: watch Contracted, chances are that you might really like that one, be pleasantly surprised and so on. This one right here, is slow, boring and heads to a direction with a wall at the end. Bad!

Thanatomorphose in French means the visible signs of an organism's decomposition caused by death.The main character of Canadian art-house gore flick "Thanatomorphose" starts to literally decompose after having sex with her vulgar and abusive boyfriend.The film takes place in the claustrophobic apartment of a young woman in the vein of Roman Polanski's "Repulsion".There is plenty of graphic gore,bile and filth on display-especially in the second half of the movie.Adittedly the make-up and special effects are excellent and truly stomach-churning.Still there is almost no plot and there are some dull spots during the first half of "Thanatomorphose".The film can be seen as the metaphor of empty and useless existence of the main character,though.7 decomposing bodies out of 10.I am fairly sure that "Nekromantik","Aftermath" and "Guinea Pig V:Mermaid and the Manhole" were huge influence here.

I simply cannot believe this movie rates a 5.6 when it honestly only deserves a rating of 0.6 Take it from me, this movie is absolute trash! No dialog! No plot! No Acting! Pretty much NO anything! 100 minutes of a woman basically running about naked in her home with her flesh rotting off her and making no attempt to visit a hospital. Are you kidding? Oh and she has a dropkick boyfriend that only comes over for sex and there's a few shots of his junk as well. The cameraman seems to take much pleasure in focusing in on filming these so called actors junk. I would have been better off spending the 100 minutes I did watching this in rearranging my sock drawer instead.

Considering the level of quality from recent modern Canadian horror films, i came into Thanatomorphose with huge expectations. Unfortunately those expectations were never met.

The gore effects and atmosphere are filled with dread. This really does feel like a horror film and I actually thought the low budget the film had played to its advantage. Its the type of film that will not only test your stomach, but will make you feel like a shower afterwards. Its almost as though the filth that is depicted on screen is reaching through and soaking you, the viewer, in it.

The gore effects are surprisingly very good which will make gore hounds want to go and see it but, the problem is, is that its over one hundred minutes in length and because the story is non existent and you don't care about the plight the main character is in, it becomes a genuinely tedious experience.

Its definitely a case of a movie that should have been made into a short film.

Very disappointed, but doesn't come without positives. Unfortunately those positives don't outshine the many negatives.

If this director NEVER makes another film in his life, we will ALL be blessed.

Thsi movie was lame excuse to show feces, vomit, blood and urine on screen. Pure and simple.

There is zero plot, zero character development, zero story. Absolutely zero story! And don't give me that s*** about the entire thing being a metaphor. Please...don't...

The first 30 minutes of the film are the most boring you will EVER witness in the history of the cinema.

The whole ordeal is UNBEREABLE.

This movie is so bad it is VULGAR and an insult to anyone who is unfortunate enough to see it.

It made me and my girlfriend feel violated.

This was literally the worst movie I have ever seen and I can't believe I was stupid enough to sit and watch it. I made a better short film for my Grade 9 class there is no way this should have even been funded it is so terrible I really wished I had checked the reviews for it before watching. 0 out of 10, worst movie made in the last 10 years. There was absolutely no acting talent, excessive use of swear words, stupid lulls of the main character falling asleep, her general disregard for herself, her nymphomaniac boyfriend, his utter stupidity, no plot line, no meaningful dialogue. The only reason you should watch this movie is if you lose a bet. even then that would be a terrible punishment. I wouldn't make George Zimmerman watch this.

Thanatomorphose was a very sick film to some people but to me it wasnt effective in that way and honestly i found its entire premise to be very boring and just plain mess.When you are watching this kind of films whos duty is just to gross out people then you must be prepared for it and i was but i just coudnt invest myself with our characters and story.This film will be a good watch only if you are huge fan of this kind of films and since im not i woudnt recommend this film to a normal people but weirdos may have a good time with it

Thanatomorphose (2012)

This movie is very slow, it's build tension for about hour, if we have two main cast, who walk around naked most of time in the movie, A lot of nudity in this movie.

I have a lot sex but story is actually good, basically this girl he having as much sex as she can because she is rotting to death.

After the very slow start of the movie, later part of the movie, were thing get very odd and weird .

As girl is actually really rotting away and we see maggots feeding on her on rotting body while she is still alive.

The last scene of the movie was really good, outstanding effects, I love when movies do these effect, there work really well.

Really good movie 7 out of 10

I have seen some really bad movies in my life but I would have to say this movie was easily one of the top ten WORSE movies I have ever watched.I unfortunately watched it in it's entirety in the hope that it would get better,but no such luck.I can't believe someone actually took a camera and made this piece of garbage.If you took a mentally retarded student in an Intro to Film 101 class and asked him to make a film,there's a strong chance it would be better than this.It was one of the most (in no particular order and,by no means a complete list of adjectives) DUMB, STUPID, IDIOTIC, BORING, AWFUL, MEANINGLESS, POINTLESS, UNREALISTIC, GROSS and DISGUSTING films I have ever had the misfortune to view.Come on John,tell us how you REALLY feel about this movie.I kept hoping the necrosis would put a rapid end to the woman but no such luck.It took it's sweet time.Do not watch this movie unless you are extremely masochistic.If you choose not to heed my advice and decide to watch this movie,please comment and let us know how you feel about it.I would be curious to see other people's reactions to it.

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.

This movie was another waste of time, and I see the horror aficionados are here trying to make a silk purse out of a sh*t shingle. Circle the wagons boys! Horror is being threatened by reasonable reviews.

Really, have you ever in your entire life met any girl who knew how to dress herself properly and brush her teeth not go to a damn doctor the second some tiny little thing was wrong with her? Ever? What BS.

Plot; stupid girl does non-plausible stuff (like rotting and not doing anything about it). Whole story made me want to knock some sense into her. The only realistic thing is how all the guys she sleeps with are all total a**holes, just like the ladies do in real life.

Totally stupid film, but here is how it should have been written; woman begins to rot to death. No one knows what to do, we see the interactions between her and her friends, and family. She is blamed for her own problem, people desert her for various reasons, causing her to die inside as well. We are surrounded by feelings of helplessness of the greatest doctors in the world, specifically one we get to know. We see the horror from her side of her impending death and from others for for the helpless victim, and the feelings of futility and lack of ability to stop the process from the attending doctor's side. Slow burn. The final image is the doctor leaving the rotting body of the dead young woman, and he looks into the mirror only to see the process beginning on himself.

There I just wrote a more engaging movie in 2 minutes than this waste of time. Horror 'writers', try actually doing more than a drawn out gimmick, and write. A better horror film is Pieces of Talent.

So so beautiful. Nothing for hollywood fans.

I just finished watching this movie and was entertain from beginning to end. The whole process of human decomposition and what brings a person to allow it to happen rather than seek help always catches my attention. Well, not all movies. Some movies are not able to make a film like this interesting or engaging while not telling or explaining much. For a low budget film, the cinematography was fine. The acting is decent and the story line crystal clear without much need for dialogue. The makeup artist did a great realistic human decomposition process on the actor. He/she must have seen it happen on a real cadaver. I can testify on that because i dealt with a few of them in my line of work. I say give it a chance. I think you will enjoy it. Just make sure you are not eating while watching it.

Years ago a former friend of mine recommended this French Canadian body horror movie so I bought a copy on DVD, put it in my film cupboard and forgot about it. I finally watched it last night but sadly it was not worth the wait. The DVD synopsis describes it as "Cronenbergian" but let's get one thing straight, David Cronenberg made classic horror films, this offering is at the opposite end of the spectrum. The low budget is obvious, that in itself is not a problem but the grubby picture quality, which now and then annoyingly goes out of focus, the bad acting and muffled sound are issues. There is a great deal of full frontal nudity but the main character Laura is in my eyes a bit of a plain Jane and her boyfriend keeps swinging his private parts around. The film may have worked OK as a short but at 96 minutes (DVD) it feels really stretched, and is quite frankly boring. The whole film takes place in Laura's apartment and the plot could be written on a postage stamp. The gory special effects are pretty decent but I will be getting rid of my DVD, there is no way that I will waste another 96 minutes of my life re-watching it. If you want to see a gruesome sex/gore movie than seek out the Nekromantik films instead.

This movie is not for the squeamish! Be warned! I'm not wasting my time going into plot details! A living girl starts decomposing for no reason! With magnification of gore! I'll put this way, then, decomposing trash is what this movie is!

A young woman, living an oppressed life, starts rotting alive in her appartment. The effects are really gory and the psychological/alegorical aspect of the movie is interesting.

There are parts that feel like a video clip of industrial bands that put me off, but, overall, really loved this one