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Not a film. It's a reel for a zombie make-up artist/crew. Zero plot.


SPOILERS? Not sure if this can be actually spoiled beyond the plot summary. It shows an evident methaphor for how the woman is decaying inside, emotionally. (Already said by many in other threads). But that methaphor is shown in such an uninteresting and dull way, with terrible acting (can it be called that?), totally irrational people (can they be called characters?) onscreen, almost no dialogue and the little of it adding nothing to the product. If you _must_ watch it and will do on video, play it at 2.5x speed. You'll lose nothing, unless you are an aficionado of rotting corpses and gore, or if you are interested in seeing if the crew or makeup artist(s) that meade this is/are good enough for you to hire for your horror movie.

Damn, in 20 minutes I could write a lame-ass voiceover script for the lead that would almost (almost) make Thanatomorphose bearable. Hey, maybe the real thing to be found is a meta-methaphore: These guys started with mild energy and vague ideas (the sculpture) to make a film and along the way THEY lost interest motivation and will... The original "dream" decayed grossly and they ended up leaving only this production as its putrid corpse.

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In that vein, they could watch an old (1977) gross out film by Rick Baker, I believe, called The Incredible Melting Man to see how to make a feature length decomposing protagonist film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076191/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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