It's amazing what you get in Poundland these days - I picked up a copy of a charming Thai movie today called Meat Grinder. To think of the foo-fer-a over The Burning all those years ago and now you get this, sitting next to a vintage trains dvd, for a quid! It is indeed gory but pretty hard going. The director thinks he's Wong Kar-Wai so there's endless changes of film stock, rapid editing, inappropriate lush music etc etc. Spurious 'social comment' a'la Dream Home is provided by a pointless bit about the Bangkok riots. There are interminable flashbacks to explain why the heroine became nutty - I fast forwarded through these. All in all, in the burgeoning 'strange ingredients in Asian food' sub-genre this is pretty near the bottom. Definitely worth £1 though if you're a fan of bodies being sliced up every which way.
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