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2. Z is for Zygote
Created by: Chris Nash
Best known for: Creature Effects Supervisor for Psycho Goreman
Score: 129

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlbgl9TW8dk

Suprak: 1
tomnook: 3
jcgamer: 3
plasma: 4
Mythiot: 7
Snake: 7
John: 14
Raka: 20
Karo: 29
Inviso: 41

Suprak
Holy SHIT what a way to end things. I was not at all prepared for this. How did the director here still manage to shock me after two full movies worth of this stuff? This is just wonderfully unsettling and creepy and I was legitimately squirming from the beginning. Even before the real horror starts, the image of her crawling around on the ground with a 13-year-old inside of her was off the charts unsettling. The insane body horror of the baby reaching throughout the mothers body and spitting out every single piece of her might top any body horror Ive seen in a film outside of The Fly. Somehow, the real horror is at the end, though. The husband comes back and it is sort of suggested that maybe this wasnt magical all along. Maybe he was gone for a normal length of time and she just miscarried/aborted. The she says she doesnt know if she can do it again and he starts to undress her anyway. CREEPY. SO FUCKING CREEPY. This one is going to haunt me for a while still and for all the good shorts in the second movie, it seems like they saved the very best for last.

Tom
Grotesque body horror with some gross implications. Excellent!

jcgamer
Haha wow that was fantastically fucked up body horror

plasma:
Now heres a concept: what if a child remained inside the mothers womb for thirteen years until the father returned to witness the birth? Brilliant.
In this one we get mind-bending images of a distended belly, bizarre conversations between mom and child, and some truly memorable body horror sequences. My brain spun in circles during the whole mouth purging sequence. I was so rattled, Im not entirely sure what happened plot-wise. Did the mother survive? Or did the child escape and become a lookalike? I think its the former, but I need to watch this one again. Easily one of the best in either anthology. A+

Snake
Unrelenting body horror (good fucking lord the takeover scene) and interpretative ending - good solid horror.

John
quite possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever seen but points for this one haunting me for years

Raka
Zygote comes in little glass jars. It's pretty disturbing but I gotta say it's unexpectedly cute that the mom is actually kind if too protective and possessive towards the baby inside her, and the kid does seem to genuinely like her. Pretty interesting body horror too. And hm, I feel like this really draws from people who are afraid of pregnancy, so..I am glad I'm not one of them.

Karo
An expectant mother who is about 13 years pregnant with a teenage kid who still lives in her womb and what the hell thank god this is the last one of these I have to watch

Inviso
The visual of a mother who has managed to keep an unborn baby within her own body for thirteen years is violent disturbingbut perhaps not as much as the idea of a father immediately deciding to try and impregnate his daughter as she resides within a full-body skin suit of her mother. Its just bizarre, but I guess I can appreciate the creativity behind it.