A demented doctor uses the scum of the city to fuel his twisted experiments. His serum is ready - now he just needs his tiny test subjects. A serial killer known as the Foot Carver stalks the streets, butchering women and collecting their manicured feet like trophies. A quirky, anxious cop goes undercover in one of the worst parts of the city, chasing her big break. When the serum goes awry and creates terrifying monsters, everyone will be in danger, and the city itself will face a horrifying end, all thanks to...THE DISCARDED.
This was a stellar extreme horror outing with a lot to like. The three-pronged storyline is a great touch, using seemingly unrelated storylines into a brutal collection later, once the series of interactions brings them together. Initially introduced to the doctor and his deranged experiments that might be carried out with the best of intentions, but manage to go about collecting some of the most heinous materials possible for his experiments, as the different interactions and descriptions involving how detailed he gets with the experiments to accomplish anything he sets out to do. The serial killer is going around town butchering women wearing specific shoes and taking them home to engage in explicit sexual fantasies that paint a picture of his degenerate depravity rather well. The other storyline, involving the cop trying to solve the cases before her, proves that something was crawling the streets killing others, so that she can help solve her anxiety disorders and complete these fun storylines in fine form, where they all offer their positives with this one.
That each one offers a distinct storyline allows the book to go through a distinct series of styles for these sections. The mad doctor scenes go nicely into the extremity of the operation and how obsessed his mentality is with getting into the depths of his experiments, operating on dead bodies. It creates a solid series of extreme sequences depicting the graphic moments with his cutting up of the bodies to procure the necessary ingredients for his special serum, which leads to the deformed creatures running wild in the city in the latter half. That's where the book takes off, where the creatures are set free for the sake of revenge, creating a series of immensely fun and graphic setpieces featuring the creatures with some impressive depictions of their attacks. The slimy atmosphere created by these scenes comes together incredibly well by adding the narrative language with the descriptive action, altered from the rest of the story as the other two segments focus on the investigation of the serial killer and his depraved obsession with killing women in that state, with the eccentricities of the detective making these connections possible.
4.5/5
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