After getting his ass kicked by a tranny outside of a porno theater, a lonely factory worker finds some kind of hard-shelled stingray type of creature that houses an otherwordly parasite searching for a host. After saving the girl he secretly admires from an aggressive douchebag yuppie (and getting his ass kicked again...), she takes him home where she is attacked by the creature, who implants some kind of slug sack in her that transforms her into a human/machine-hybrid. Some convenient exposition lends some insight into the purpose of these parasites, which seems to be: to control the host through their nervous system and cannibalize other such beings after battling them to the death.
It's obvious that "Meatball Machine" is a take off on Shinya Tsukamoto's landmark 'cyber-punk' masterpiece, "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" only with much more gore - courtesy of 'new wave' Japanese makeup/special effects artist, Yoshihiro Nishimura. There's plenty of nasty, gratuitous violence and gore (some of which involving children...) and crazy industrial biomechanical amalgamations - appropriately called Necroborgs - engaging in brutal junkyard brawls. Like the "Tetsuo" series, it's bizarre in a totally self-aware kinda way, but doesn't cease to bring the entertainment, full-force. Needless to say, this one gets a hearty recommendation.
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