Thanatomorphose

A recent article in Gorezone Magazine alerted me to a darkly intriguing new film about to enter pre-production: French-Canadian filmmaker Éric Falardeau’s independently produced dark tale of sex and gore, Thanatomorphose.
Thanatomorphose, as explained above, is a French word meaning ‘the visible signs of a organism’s decomposition caused by death.’ This positively Cronenbergian sounding film follows the tragic and rather moist tale of the young and beautiful Laura, who wakes up one day and finds her flesh rotting, in a strange and claustrophobic tale of sexuality, horror and body fluids…
Falardeau was inspired by a famous quote from film director Jean Cocteau: “You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.” Apparently, the film’s emphasis is not on the why, but the how: how will Laura react to what is happening to her? Falardeau has said that the film investigates the notion of ‘the body as an object, a commodity - how we treat our body and disconnect ourselves from it in the process.’
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Dreaded Dreams
Petunia Scareum
Thanatomorphose sounds really promising, doesn't it!?
I too am a card-carrying Cronenphile.
http://unflinchingeye.blogspot.com/search/label/Interzone%20Dispatches
And it'd be my pleasure to check out your Cronenberg posts! Cheers.
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Yeah, this sounds really interesting and will hopefully deliver on its dark potential. I'm thinking early Cronenberg meets Marina de Van, with some Trouble Every Day-type lyricism thrown in for good measure.