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Director Marcus Koch joins us in person for a tale of punks and corpses that has to be seen in VHScious Video.
"It's like a SOV variant on David Cronenberg's Rabid." - Joseph A. Ziemba, Bleeding Skull! - A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey
"It feels like we are really there as two kids just fall to pieces with no one left to save them or ever put them back together." - Sam Panico, B&S About Movies
"If there’s one thing I’ve learned from horror movies, it’s this: don’t run upstairs when a killer with a machete is chasing you through the house. But if there’s a second thing I’ve learned, it’s don’t have sex with corpses. Nothing but bad will come from it." - Sean Leonard, Horror News
Artist Sara has sex with a corpse in the local funeral home and soon finds herself infected with a mysterious disease. After infecting her crust punk boyfriend Muzzy, the pair sets out on a reckless spree of carefree crime and chaos. They soon discover the virus is the deranged creation of the disgraced government genetic scientist turned janitor Dr. Robert Olsen (Joel D. Wynkoop). Developed as an experimental population control method, the virus causes its living victims to deteriorate and decompose. Shooting formaldehyde intravenously to avoid their inevitable decay, Sara and Muzzy desperately traverse the Florida backstreets and underground punk clubs in search of an antidote to the ROT.
The third SOV feature from former Florida based filmmaker Marcus Koch known concurrently for his transgressive directorial output (100 Tears, Fell, Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films) as well as his masterful special FX work (Jakob's Wife, We Are Still Here), ROT combines a rudimentary take on Cronenberg's body horror ruminations with the grimy, analog aesthetics of Hugh Gallagher's Gorotica. With an unhinged performance from B-movie legend Joel D. Wynkoop (Creep, Swamp Woman) and a riotous soundtrack featuring The Casualties, Blanks 77, and The Scams, ROT is a gooey and gruesome cinematic explosion of punk, puke, and necrophilia.