There’s nothing like the whiplash moment of seeing an actor that you know for, oh, soap operas and they suddenly turn up in a gross-out horror film. Australians got that when Ian Smith – best known as adorable know-it-all goof Harold Bishop in long-running soap Neighbours – turns up in antipodean splatterpunk masterpiece Body Melt. Basically, imagine Jack Deveraux from Days of Our Lives cameoing in Street Trash. Smith is clearly having endless fun as mad scientist Dr. Carrera, whose experimental diet pills turn the residents of Pebbles Court in suburban Melbourne into monsters before they dissolve into piles of goo all courtesy of special effects legend Bob McCarron, making for the kind of movie that needs it a splash zone. – Richard Whittaker