Tuesday, January 25, 2022

'Lifechanger' (20180 Justin McConnell.

'Lifechanger' is a solidly-written, well-acted, darkly sardonic, city-set body-shocker about a ceaselessly narrating, persistently parasitical shape-changer, a strange, luridly lifeforce-leeching, human-hopping horror who hides in plain sight, callously moving from body to body like some needfully skin-squatting, aggressively anthropoid acquiring, sinisterly slaying sprite! While this blithely body-swapping fiend lives rent free, ultimately it must pay a very heavy toll, this eerie entity's macabre metempsychosis rapidly degenerates the dastardly duplicated tissues of their new host's grimly purloined body; crustily breaking out in ookey, livid-looking leprous sores, and all this fatally flesh filching, boozy bar-room badinage, gruesome body-bagging climaxes with a fitfully freaky final act of emotionally fraught, grisly-gloopy, pleasingly oblique, pseudo-Cronenbergian crypto-cosmic weirdness! McConnell's engaging 'Lifechanger' while a little 'talky', still comes across as a kinda' funky Frankenstein'd fusion of Jack Sholder's epic body snatching B-Movie 'The Hidden', and maestro David Cronenberg's apocalyptically carnivorous 'Rabid'.  Fear-seeking fright-fans of fleshly freaksome modern body horror gems 'Let Her Out', 'Spring' and 'Under The Skin' might groove especially sinisterly on 'Lifechanger', and on a more personal note, I find that the more intelligent Canadian horror films frequently take the B-Movie roads less travelled!

'While most of us need somebody to love, this 'body' will love yours to death!'

 


 








 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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