Gore never bores in this scrappy South African remake of a cult 1987 body horror comedy. But the unhoused misfits at the centre of this dystopian story are fighting back, as the mayor exterminates the 'homeless problem' one melting body at a time.

Writer-director Ryan Kruger revives the gross-out exploitation of the 'melt movie', but also throws in shades of Robocop, They Live and The Warriors. Its tagline "melt the rich" perfectly sums up the added action plot: the unhoused misfits will most definitely take revenge on the cartoonishly villainous mayor, as he exterminates every unhoused person in the city, one melting body at a time.

While the 1987 original was written "to democratically offend every group on the planet", here bad taste has some limits– with immodesty favoured over immorality. Subtle it is not, but there’s a wholesomeness to the affection this remake has for its central characters– though much more, of course, for its gore. The beating, melting, exploding heart of the film, these sequences– in which people are spectacularly eviscerated from the inside out– keep coming, and keep pushing the threshold. There’s something for everyone (to be grossed out by): torn-off faces, severed genitals and a horny, foul-mouthed imaginary friend. And that’s all in the first ten minutes. All guts, so gory.