When you watch some horror films that focus on blood, gore, and other bodily fluids, you often get the feeling that it wasn’t necessarily the director who had the most fun with the film, but rather the effects artists and makeup artists. . This also applies to horror waste”cyst“, which is now available in full on Amazon Prime Video.
If you have a relatively strong stomach, feel free to take a look, because the slimy B-movie homage relies on refreshingly old-fashioned effects and hits the mark when it comes to artistry. That’s quite disgusting, but also very nice, because’cyst“ is also an atmospheric declaration of love to the cinema of the 60s and 70s.
In the official FILMSTARTS review, “Cyst” received a solid 3 out of 5 possible stars. The conclusion of our author Lutz Granert is as follows: “Artificial pus is not spilled here, but piled up: The simple horror-trash comedy ‘Cyst’, which is only released in Germany for those 18 years and older, bows to the B-movies of the 60s and 70s with old-fashioned effects.
That’s what “Cyst” is about
December 1961: The plastic surgeon Dr. Guy (George Hardy) has developed a machine that should be able to remove purulent ulcers from patients – without leaving any residue and protecting the surrounding tissue. However, his nurse Patricia (Eva Habermann), who is about to resign, has already discovered that the device still has no sensitivity whatsoever.
To demonstrate his invention to a patent office committee, Dr. Guy gives his intern Preston (Darren Ewing) a home-developed nutritional solution for the growth of purulent tumors. But the attempt fails completely: Preston dies of pain and the serum grows into a huge cyst monster that craves human flesh…
Author: Pascal Reis
Source : Film Starts
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