Metamorphosis got in my mind because I just watched and enjoyed George Eastman in Hands of Steel. George Eastman is a very prolific Italian writer, director, actor and producer. He primarily wrote films, known for Italian schlock like Porno Holocaust, Antropophagus, The Great Aliigator and Dog Lay Afternoon. Yes, that last film is about a woman who has sex with a dog.
In this Eastman wrote and directed entry, a brilliant, attractive, and successful scientist was recently given $200,000 for a research grant. His research comes into question, and it turns out he has been studying immortality, and has also tracked the human genome. Interesting that now we have actually tracked the genome! Anyways, all the other doctors naturally freak out, and soon enough our rejected doc is injecting himself with a radical untested drug he's been developing.
I watched this in part because several things online talked about how the doctor eventually turns into a T-Rex. I was excited to see a stupid late entry Italian horror film about a dude turning into a dinosaur. But, as we all know, sometimes these movies don't live up to their synopsis.
First of all, the movie is drag-your-ass-in-the-dirt-slooooooww. The beginning is interesting as we get to know the characters and such, our doc gets with a woman, and seeing him inject a needle into his eye was cool. But then, it's dialogue and nothingness as I guess things sort of happen. It seems the doc begins losing chunks of time, it seems he is transforming somehow in unknown ways, and his relationships get hurt because of these factors. Blah blah blah.
We only get "the T-Rex" part of this movie in the last 5 minutes, I kid you not. It's another great fucking costume too, or prop, or whatever it is. There's been some good makeup effects along the way I suppose, but it's all been too little, too late in my critical opinion. It's just ssssllllooowwwww and duuuuuulll and I was waiting for it to end.
Matamorphosis was on my infamous list of films I'd wanted to see. Now I've seen it, and it kinda sucked, so oh well. It happens. 2 stars.
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