GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Meat Machine (2025)

The President (“Chicken” George Zupp) believes that a nuke is going to drop on Texas, so he brings in Dr. Calypso (Furly Travis), who is in the middle of making women pregnant and killing Saddam Hussein. so he knocks up his assistant (Rebekah Porter)  and pulls a baby out of her throat because babies are innocent angels and the atomic bomb is Satan. Meanwhile, Natty (Shauna Nunn) is cheating on her gambling husband, Leo (Steve Jones), who is in trouble with the mob. There’s also Junior High (Paxton Gilmore), whose girlfriend (Laura McKee) got so upset when he got sick of her that she did drugs and got caught in a deadly wreck with a bad boy. At the same time, his father (Tayer Cranor) and a barber named Bosco (C. Paul Cardoza) both try to make love to the somewhat innocent kid.

This all feels like it was shot on video, so I should love it. It’s filthy and has lines line, “I fuck to live and I live to fuck.” I know what Jeffrey Garcia, the director and writer, is going for. He also made Bubblegum, a movie that I said “was probably more fun to make than watch.” This maintains the same feel, with garish colors, plenty of wigs, gross-out humor, and people swearing more than in a Rob Zombie movie. It’s like how some people enjoy Troma movies; I’d rather enjoy a film that is weird because it’s naturally that way, rather than being intentionally odd. There is a way that can happen, I assure you.

But if you like that kind of Tim and Eric kind of feel, well, I won’t stop you from watching this.

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