After Marianne (Pascal Maetans), a bodybuilder who concentrates on one arm only, has given birth, she decides to ditch the baby and keep the placenta she affectionately calls Luke - and thanks to the upbringing of his mom and the local priest, Luke grows up to be quite a normal human being ... apart from the fact of course that he's a placenta, and looks it, too.

High school is difficult for him, just like for all kids who are different, as he's the prime target of bullies, and he of course falls in love with the most popular girl in class (Sofie Hoflack) ... but their one date goes horribly wrong when she tries to eat him - as she thinks that's the proper thing to do with placentas. Luke is just shattered, but to raise his spirits, mom orders him a whore - which really helps, until Luke overhears the prostitute asking for extra money because Luke's just a monster.

Eventually, mom, who has been taken all kinds of steroids all her life, overdoes it and loses her good arm, and is no longer able to compete of course, which forces Luke into a dead end job - and it isn't long from there until he breaks ...

There's one thing The Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta is for certain ... and that's weird - kind of obvious of course, as it's not that often that we get a movie focusing on the life of a living placenta, but there's more than just that, as the movie, despite rather basic effects work and quite a few gross-out scenes, is beyond being just crude, it actually shows sympathy for its lead placenta and puts him through the paces rather than just making him the center of jokes. And while the film's main influence is quite probably Basket Case, cineastes might also find quite some parallels to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, interestingly.

So basically, this film is less spectacle and more beyond spectacle - which is quite a feat and results in a very unusual movie!

If this has gotten you at all excited, you might want to check out this movie at Troma Now: https://troma.vhx.tv/videos/blood-orgy-at-beaver-lake

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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