Parents, lock your children in their rooms. Women, stay as far away from your plastic surgeon as you can. Be very, very afraid. A new short film is making its way through the film festival circuit this spring that may make your blood curdle and will certainly change the way you look at breast augmentation forever. It is called “BOOB” and it just may redefine modern notions of cosmetic surgery gone awry.
This short falls into the horror genre, and for good reason. It is about a cosmetic surgeon who performs an unusual breast augmentation procedure that will allow the woman to enlarge her breast whenever she wants. It sounds great in theory. When you go to the beach, you can blow up your breast implants to give you the perfect bikini body, and when you are playing sports, you can reduce them again for maximum comfort and performance. Experience modern technology at its finest.
However, the procedure goes awry when a surge of electricity brings the boob to life. The boob proceeds to wreak havoc on all in its path. Look out! Runaway boob on the warpath. Run for your life!
The directing team for the film, Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion (they call themselves “Honest”), has kept the actual film off of the Internet at the moment. The only information available is a brief synopsis and a 45 second movie trailer. Therefore, I can only speculate about the grim details that mark this soon-to-be plastic surgery horror masterpiece. But I will do my best to try.
The film seems like a cross between Frankenstein and Night of the Living Dead, although if it espoused the virtues of Evil Dead, it would most likely be a much better film. In fact, if they could have convinced Bruce Campbell to star in the short, I’m sure it would be well on its way to becoming a cult classic.
I can only imagine spending 5-15 minutes of my life watching a film based on a psychotic boob on the rampage after a rogue implant goes haywire. I’m not sure if it will be quality entertainment or a blight on humanity. However, if I ever have the opportunity to waste valuable minutes of my life on viewing this cinematic tour de force, you can rest assured I will stop at nothing until I have soaked up every moment of gore provided by this psychotic boob.
You can catch “BOOB” at the following film festivals this year: SXSW 2009, IFFBoston 2009, Gen Art 2009, Newport Beach FF 2009, and NYIIFVF 2009. If only they had shown “BOOB” at the Vail Film Festival last weekend, I would be writing a full-fledged review right now.
If you have seen “BOOB” and are not waking up in the middle of the night with breast augmentation nightmares, please an experienced breast augmentation surgeon today to schedule a consultation.
It also sounds reminiscent of Frank Henenlotter’s work, like Frankenhooker, Brain Damage, and possibly his scariest entry yet: Bad Biology.