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The Films of Eric Red

Cohen and Tate

Body Parts (February 10/09)

Though it gets off to an admittedly slow start, Body Parts eventually establishes itself as an unapologetically ludicrous horror effort that often skirts the very edges of camp without going entirely over. The film casts Jeff Fahey as Bill Chrushank, a mild-mannered psychiatrist who undergoes a experimental arm-transplant surgery following a horrific car crash - with the bulk of the proceedings revolving around his slow realization that something's not quite right with his new limb (although, as his doctor helpfully informs him, "that arm can't do anything you don't want it to.") Director Eric Red has infused the early part of Body Parts with a deliberately-paced sensibility that does prove a test to one's patience, admittedly, yet there inevitably reaches a point at which the film's more overtly macabre elements move to the forefront and effectively propel the proceedings through to its appreciatively over-the-top climax. Fahey's go-for-broke performance certainly plays a substantial role in the movie's unexpected success, although it's impossible to downplay the effectiveness of Brad Dourif's scene-stealing turn as an off-kilter fellow transplant recipient. The inclusion of a thrilling, almost De Palmaesque car chase between Bill and a neck-brace-wearing antagonist virtually justifies the film's entire existence, and it's subsequently (and ultimately) impossible not to regard Body Parts as a woefully underrated piece of work.

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