Horror Movie Review: Flesh City (2019)

A slice of insanity from writer and director, Thorsten Fleisch. Flesh City is a near incomprehensible and surrealist ‘no budget’ horror movie that stars Christian Serritiello and Eva Ferox.

At a grungy punk-like Berlin nightclub, Vyren (Serritiello) meets Loquette (Ferox) and they end up in the bowels where they run into manic Professor Yagov (Arthur Patching).

Loquette is captured but Vyren manages to escape, though his arm is mutating. Frightened and confused, Vyren has no choice but to go back to the club, rescue Loquette and put a stop to Yagov’s plan to mutate the entire city.

That’s about as much sense as we could make out of the plot as Flesh City doesn’t follow conventional processes. There’s next to no dialogue and it assaults the mind with a virulent cacophony of lights and sounds. All part of an editing style that is both vomit-inducing and mesmerising in equal measures.

Also, the film is constantly interrupted by music videos that air on a broadcast know as ‘Magical Nihilism.’ It really is as weird as it sounds, yet words won’t be able to do the madness justice.

On the one hand, the experimental style is very clever. Yet, on the other, it is nonsensical and frustrating. Everyone that experiences Flesh City will likely come away with a different opinion.

Regardless of the ‘love-hate’ nature of the overall movie, most will be able to recognise that there is talent involved. The locales are delightfully filthy, the science-fiction touches are eccentrically fun, the overall soundtrack is unique, and it isn’t afraid to push the limits of an imagination with some shock moments too.

It’s quite an unforgettable experience.

Which means it’s such a shame that there isn’t a coherent narrative that viewers can fully sink their teeth in. It is undoubtably the movie’s biggest flaw, and one that many will struggle to look past.