{"id":42236,"date":"2024-01-09T00:44:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T05:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42236"},"modified":"2024-01-06T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:51:12","slug":"suitable-flesh-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/09\/suitable-flesh-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitable Flesh (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d feels like a movie displaced from the nineties. It feels like a film that would have originally starred Linda Blair and Julie Strain in the duel roles we see in Joe Lynch\u2019s newest horror film. In many ways that\u2019s both a pro and a con as \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d is completely out of what director Joe Lynch typically delivers. While \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d pegs itself more as Lovecraftian body horror, the movie leans very heavily more on erotic camp revolving around a lot of body switching and hyper sexual violence. While the movie will definitely have its fans, at the end of the day \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d and I just didn\u2019t click with it.<\/p>\n

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“Suitable Flesh” sees Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby become obsessed with helping a young patient suffering extreme personality disorder. But it leads her into dark occult danger as she tries to escape a horrific fate.<\/p>\n

The movie itself is fine enough in its parts, but as a whole it feels like a big missed opportunity that never takes enough from this premise to garner good frights. Rather, Lynch revels in its over the top tone and inability to be truly scary. It\u2019s more bizarre and gonzo at times with the whole threads with Lovecraft presented as a loose aesthetic and recurring theme than anything else. Films like \u201cThe Skeleton Key\u201d just handled concepts in the same vein with much better coherency and tension. To his credit \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d is a well made film deriving some great performances from its seasoned cast.<\/p>\n

Everyone here are just on their A games including Barbara Crampton and Heather Graham, respectively. I don\u2019t know how these women don\u2019t look as if they\u2019ve aged a day, but lo and behold. They\u2019re both gorgeous and deliver on strong turns, alongside other folks like Bruce Davison, Jonathan Schaech, and Judah Lewis respectively. Lewis in particular seems to be having a ball in this role, providing a layered performance that alternates between vulnerable victim and sex crazed psychopath. \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d has a ton of talent in its corner the film just never amounts to anything I\u2019d ever see again. It\u2019s a shame since Lynch\u2019s penchant for nihilism is usually a great asset to his film projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now Streaming for Rent. \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d feels like a movie displaced from the nineties. It feels like a film that would have originally starred Linda Blair and Julie Strain in the duel roles we see in Joe Lynch\u2019s newest horror film. In many ways that\u2019s both a pro and a con as \u201cSuitable Flesh\u201d is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,477,484,703,793,1087],"class_list":["post-42236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-horror","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-mystery","tag-possession","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42238,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42236\/revisions\/42238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}