Bite

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Last year there were a string of body-horror movies treating decomposition as a STD (Contracted, Thanamorphose). This movie does similar, but instead of decaying, the main character is transmogrifying into a nasty insect monster. This movie is attempting a far grosser modern update to 'the fly', as she begins spewing gallons of multicolored slime, translucent eggs, and building a nest. There's no one or anything worth investing in, character-wise, as the movie goes exclusively for gross-out moments, trying to top itself in with successive levels of escalating foul fluids and body horror. At some point it crossed a threshold from gross to boring, as I reached peak disgust and simply rolled my eyes at further escalation. It is rather well made and directed, if this is your cup of gelatinous festering pus-slime. The vast majority of elements are practical effects (there is some last-act shoddy cg work at the end but it is sparing) so everything looks and sounds as horrible as you'd expect things to be.

D+