Body Parts
The Secret Agent Network
January 7 - 13
A criminal psychologist (Jeff Fahey) is fitted with a transplanted arm, only to discover it belonged to an executed serial killer whose impulses may still be alive under his skin, in Eric Red’s gruesomely funny thriller.
After a criminal psychologist (Jeff Fahey) loses his arm in a car accident, he’s fitted with a transplanted limb, only to discover that it belonged to an executed serial killer whose impulses may still be alive under his skin. Director Eric Red stages the premise with a smeary neo-noir visual style, sound design that lands with an almost physical force, and the occasional burst of splattery action, while playing the film’s absurdity straight into a conspiracy involving other recipients of the killer’s dismembered anatomy, including an artist played with unhinged precision by Brad Dourif. Made on a Paramount Pictures budget with a B-movie sensibility, Red’s gleefully over-the-top, high-concept thriller winds up as a gruesomely funny, totally outrageous parable about external control and bodily autonomy, and the ways surveillance works its way under the skin. Experience it loud and on 35mm.
“Body Parts was one of the great screenings that I saw at that time because I thought the film was very honest. I thought it was very surprising in many ways. At the end of the day, it’s a B-movie. A lot of it doesn’t quite add up, and it’s not a 'great' film, but you can have a great time watching it because it does what so many films today don’t do: it’s over-the-top. I love to see an over-the-top B-movie with over-the-top gore and music. And, of course, it has to do with body parts.”
—Kleber Mendonça Filho
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