DIRECTED BY: Anthony G. Sumner
REVIEWED BY: Mario Dominick
From Anthony Sumner and TinyCore Pictures comes “Sexual Parasites, Disembowelment, Zombies, Serial Killers, Demon Children, Violent Vixens, Rabid Office Workers and Angry Embryos” all rolled into one gruesome little package in an anthology called Slices of Life.
The wraparound story of Slices of Life concerns a young girl named Mira (Kaylee Williams) who wakes up on the lawn in front of a motel. She apparently suffered a head trauma that gave her amnesia. The caretakers (Helene Alter-Dyche and Marv Blauvelt) of the motel bring her in and have her help out behind the front desk while she regains her memory. She uncovers a mysterious book that appears to be made of human flesh which presents her with three stories.
The first story “Work Life” (which is Sumner’s award winning short film W.O.R.M.) tells the story of an office worker looking to get ahead with his idea of a new computer program that can connect people looking to start relationships via the internet and their brains. While looking at a social networking/relationship site, he becomes acquainted through the site with a woman (Alan Rowe Kelly) who doesn’t seem too enthused with him at first. Once he tries his new program that has power to get other people to like you via internet/mind control, it creates a lethal computer virus that affects more than just hard drives as everyone at the office turns into mutant flesh eating zombies.
The second story “Home Life” concerns a pregnant housewife being plagued by a string of seemingly endless amber alerts and news stories about young girls disappearing in her area. Her television seems to take on a life of its own as it keeps turning itself back on with the news stories after she turns it off. Soon the housewife starts having visions of some kind of alien intelligence manifesting itself in other people in public. It soon turns out that her detective husband who’s investigating the disappearances is hiding something which ends with horrifying results.
“Sex Life” presents us with a girl’s abusive relationship with her boyfriend ending by her brother accidentally beating him to death. The brother and sister find themselves on the run. After fleeing town, they come across an old victorian mansion out in the sticks. Upon entering and seeking shelter in the old house, they soon discover the place is harvesting bizarre Cronenbergian parasitic creatures that find themselves hosts in rather messy and unpleasant ways.
Slices of Life is sick, entertaining, wicked, gory and disgusting fun with plenty of chills, spills, and nasty effects to satisfy horror fans. Sumner’s W.O.R.M. short is without doubt the best segment of the film with Alan Rowe Kelly in another splendid genre performance. “Home Life” has some cool visuals and a really cool, gory demise of one of the main characters. “Sex Life” features some neat creature effects.
Please visit the Slices of Life website at www.slicesoflifemovie.com for more info.
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