Frank Henenlotter strikes me as a director unwilling to make compromises. I highly doubt that anyone else was involved with the creative side of this film; and the result is something that is not for everyone, but is a real ride for those who can appreciate it. In fact, Bad Biology is really nothing like anything else I've ever seen; there's been some comparisons with earlier sex related horror Teeth, but this film takes those ideas much further and adds in a whole boatload of new ones. The film opens with a shot of our female lead, who goes on to proclaim that she was "born with seven clits". Naturally, this birth defects means that she has an overactive sex drive, and this means she spends her nights hooking up with various men, and usually killing them in the act of lovemaking (to say any more than that would spoil one of the film's most ingenious plot elements!). She goes through life believing she has no equal, but eventually we are introduced to Batz; a man whose penis comes complete with its own conscience.
Bad Biology is a film with no boundaries; it's never clear exactly where it's going to go next and this is one of the best things about it. The plot really allows Henenlotter to go wild and basically do whatever he likes; which the director delights in doing. However, the film does show some restraint in regards to how the story is built up; it would have been easy to just let his two central characters go wild on some kind of gory rampage, but instead the director builds the pair of them up with their own stories before they eventually meet. The film is incredibly sleazy, which I loved, and the majority of it takes place very much in the gutter. The director adds in a few sequences that aren't particularly relevant to the plot but help to instil the sleaziness of the whole thing; a conversation between some kids in a cafe was hilarious. There's a sequence towards the end in which one of the central 'monsters' goes berserk which goes on too long, but other than that; this is exactly the film I wanted and I have to thank Frank Henenlotter for making it! It's just such a shame he makes films so sporadically; with all the rubbish coming out nowadays, somebody needs to give this man a blank chequebook and tell him to do whatever he wants with it! Highly recommended for trash fans.
Bad Biology is a film with no boundaries; it's never clear exactly where it's going to go next and this is one of the best things about it. The plot really allows Henenlotter to go wild and basically do whatever he likes; which the director delights in doing. However, the film does show some restraint in regards to how the story is built up; it would have been easy to just let his two central characters go wild on some kind of gory rampage, but instead the director builds the pair of them up with their own stories before they eventually meet. The film is incredibly sleazy, which I loved, and the majority of it takes place very much in the gutter. The director adds in a few sequences that aren't particularly relevant to the plot but help to instil the sleaziness of the whole thing; a conversation between some kids in a cafe was hilarious. There's a sequence towards the end in which one of the central 'monsters' goes berserk which goes on too long, but other than that; this is exactly the film I wanted and I have to thank Frank Henenlotter for making it! It's just such a shame he makes films so sporadically; with all the rubbish coming out nowadays, somebody needs to give this man a blank chequebook and tell him to do whatever he wants with it! Highly recommended for trash fans.