Meatball Machine Koduko Review: The sequel to cult smash Meatball Machine arrives just in time for Frightfest.
Meatball Machine Koduko Review
Meatball Machine Koduko closes down the Frightfest Discovery screen programming, and I personally can’t think of a better film to do so. The film somehow encapsulates the festival experience – at the start everything’s a bit weird and uncomfortable, and then suddenly you embrace the madness and have a fun time. I could try and tell you the plot of the film, but in all honestly I’m really not too sure what actually unfolded before my eyes. A dying downtrodden man finds himself with the opportunity to play hero after a wave of parasitic aliens takeover people’s bodies in his hometown. What happens next is an all-out bloodbath war between grotesquely mutated beings. Strap in folks, you’re in for a bumpy ride.
Meatball Machine Koduko Review
The opening thirty minutes of the film are dreary, and in all honesty, a bit seedy. Our hero has the hots for a girl young enough to be his daughter, and we’re supposed to get on-board with watching him leer at her. There’s so much sleaziness and sexual violence in the opening third that it becomes almost unbearable. I found it so uncomfortable that I was about to turn the movie off, but then the insanity was unleashed. After the initial ‘set-up’ of characters the film takes-off in a Sharknado level of craziness, and the rest of the run time is purely people killing people in all manner of horrific and bloody ways.
The action is like Power Rangers on acid. The fight sequences are vividly violent and, once the floodgates open on the bloodshed, they just don’t let up. It’s so intense it’s almost seizure-inducing. The practical effects are phenomenal, the budget must have been through the roof as every character at some point or another gets an upgrade – and they aren’t subtle little things here and there, it’s full-body prosthetic’s for all.
When you surrender to the madness, Meatball Machine Koduko is oddly enjoyable, you just need a lot of will power to endure it long enough to get there.
Meatball Machine Koduko review by Kat Hughes, August 2017.
Meatball Machine Koduko is currently playing as part of the Horror Channel Frighfest 2017 programme.
