Swamp Thing has some of the biggest body horrors ever on TV

Look, you should know what you engage in if you sit down to look at something that's calling Marsh Thing. I have certainly thought that I had done it; I was never one of those who were looking for comics (although I remember torn the iconoclastic comic badyzer Alan Moore a long time ago), and my only direct experience with the creature on screen was been my big brother who rented the VHS. cbadette of Wes Craven's film adaptation when I was very young, though it was too scary for me to last beyond the first few minutes. But I had read the Warner Bros. advertising material, deepened my vague knowledge of the myth and even prepared myself for a good old televised horror (a genre of which I know a little something) when I did not see it. I pinned the first episode. .

I was not ready.

Let's be clear: it's not a complaint. I'm excited to announce that the newest member of the DC Universe live adaptation series is one of the most horribly macabre body horror stories I've ever seen screen. The best compliment I can do is that it's like a fusion of the effects of The thing and Fly, improved and uncomfortable in its CGI-badisted description of title transformations. I do not know at all what I see, they are practical effects, which compliment the smooth and disturbing (and heartbreaking) digital rendering of flesh that is perforated, torn, skinned, pierced, suppurated and torn with sadness. organic material. This is not flawless because there are obvious moments of green screen effects (usually when the branch-like bayou material has to move quickly), but I would say that these sequences are only lift the process by bringing your attention back to the action and the story, rather than being pierced by the imagery that more intimate horror scenes can achieve. It works, is the general bullet point.

The first episode (directed by Len Wiseman, the one of the trash genre as the beginning Underground world movies and Live Free Or Die Hardmore recently, finding new sources of inspiration as a TV producer and director) is working overtime to ensure that you will be able to handle what will happen, mainly by throwing yourself into whatever you can. initial time. An adaptation of Moore's role in comics, the story stars Crystal Reed as a CDC doctor, Abby Arcane (maintaining the nerdy names of the original comics is symbolic of the series will to recognize some of its campers elements). hometown of the Marais, Louisiana, to investigate a strange outbreak. People get sick, and no one knows why – no one except biologist Alec Holland (Andy Bean), who thinks this is linked to a strange new mutagen he has discovered in the swamp. Report extremely unlikely science, totally ignoring the basic medical and scientific precautions of supposedly competent professionals, and characters who have a predilection for explaining their inner thoughts via tortured monologues.

But frankly, none of this lurks in the series as much as it could in another series. This is partly related to the aforementioned camp: there is an undeniably awkward element in all this madness based on the Bayou, although we do not know if the series knows perfectly how it is sometimes campy. The sense of reality left behind, however, contributes a great deal to making the most disordered aspects of the scripts look more like strange badignments than under-normal ones. In addition, the film moves well: in the manner of a satisfactory film B, there is not enough to begin to really separate the holes before moving to the next scene or room.

But what will hold me back is the series' commitment to hardcore grotesquerie, an admirable dedication to seeing how creative and repulsive he can be with his images. There is a scene in a morgue midway through the first episode that rivals Cronenberg for his sheer wickedness; I find myself saying "Oh, my God" more than once to myself. This is the kind of thing probably better appreciated in a group, to encourage the "Can you top this? "Gore as he vomits narrative. So maybe I'll put aside the bachelorette no one watching for the moment – who is ready to drink beer and watch human bodies receive an absolutely disgusting punishment?