Suitable Flesh

Released Oct 27, 2023

1h 39m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby becomes 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.

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Critics Consensus

Campy and creepy, Suitable Flesh delivers visceral, '80s-inspired horror topped off by game performances from Barbara Crampton and Heather Graham.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

This material? Not very strong. These actors? Doing what they can with it and actually getting it to a pretty creepy place.

Nov 29, 2023

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Kimber Myers

Crooked Marquee

Lynch never nears the gleefully demented levels of gore and black humor that were Gordon’s hallmarks, but Suitable Flesh is still a fun if relatively mild homage.

Rated: B-

Oct 30, 2023

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Adam White

Independent (UK)

There are flashes of HP Lovecraft, but the film is otherwise steeped in tributes to Stuart Gordon, the late king of scuzzy, made-for-VHS horror... Here, that manifests in a splurge of self-parodic fun.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 30, 2023

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Rocco T. Thompson

Daily Dead

Suitable Flesh is less suitable than it is superlative: a playful, gleefully horny Lovecraftian thriller

Rated: 4/5

Jul 2, 2024

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Kevin Wight

The Wee Review

It's difficult not to grin as a possessed Heather Graham grinds away on top of her dumbly delighted husband to the strains of some vintage softcore sax

Rated: 4

Feb 28, 2024

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Joe Lynch's foray into the world of Lovecraft is a horny, sexy, gory surprise that's anchored by a shockingly fun turn from Heather Graham. More roles like this for her, please!

Rated: 3.5/5

Feb 27, 2024

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Alexandra B

Campy, horny horror as god intended

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/09/24

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David R

Plays like a made for tv movie. Really pathetic attempt of making a movie.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/07/24

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Logan D

A psychatrist (Graham) becomes overly interested in a patient. Occult antics ensue. I really wanted to love this film. Lynch directed the hilarious and thrilling Mayhem, featuring a frenetic pace of a story. However, this film drags to the end. An omage to 80s and 90s horror, particularly Stuart Gordon, it lacks the charm of those films and the sets are too clean to provoke a sense of dread. Graham and the eternally young Crampton are a joy to view. That said. Oddly, I want to give it another viewing. There are some films I didn't enjoy the first time around but happily gave a second chance. Two notes I took: a stab to the back of someone's head wasn't believable I did love the car backing up scene. Trivia: Based on the Lovecraft short story, "The Thing on the Doorstep."

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/19/24

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Jesse L

Really tried to give this a lot of rope for mutple reasons. On more than one occasion it fel like soft core $orn. The acting, music, writing, dialage all felt alsomt intentionally cheesy but not in a good way.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/05/24

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Susan I

Story wise was good... at the beginning. However I don't like how the authors/writers/directors contradict their own story and change its own rules of the curse to try and have a mediocre ending. I would've have a better ending

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/19/24

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Aldis H

Just barely alright, but the end is so tiresome. Think of something new please.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

04/03/24

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Synopsis

Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby becomes 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.

Director: Joe Lynch
Producer: Barbara Crampton, Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh, Joe Wicker
Screenwriter: Dennis Paoli
Distributor: RLJE Films / Shudder
Production Co: AMP International, Eyevox Entertainment
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 27, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 27, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.1K
Runtime: 1h 39m

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