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- 1982
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
- 1982
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
Summary A young woman gets raped by a mysterious man-creature, and years later her son begins a horrific transformation into a similar beast.
Directed By: Philippe Mora
Written By: Tom Holland, Edward Levy
- 1982
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
- 1982
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
The Beast Within
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Summary A young woman gets raped by a mysterious man-creature, and years later her son begins a horrific transformation into a similar beast.
Directed By: Philippe Mora
Written By: Tom Holland, Edward Levy
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Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Mixed
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20% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
42
20% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
An ambitious monster movie that attempts to explore the metaphorical ghosts lingering over the atrocities committed by the residents of a small, noxiously chummy Southern town, and whose collective closets obviously symbolize the troubled historical legacy of the American South at large.
Written by Tom Holland, who would go on to write and direct FRIGHT NIGHT and CHILD'S PLAY, the script does a nice job of translating the awkwardness of adolescence into a horrifying event.
There does come a time when Clemens has to get out of his body and get on with being a bigtime monster. Thanks to Thomas R. Burman’s make-up effects, this sequence actually creates chills as the boy’s head bubbles and bursts and his skin pops and stretches.
Philippe Mora is the director, but the only name really worth noting is that of Tom Burman, who did the frequently grotesque special effects.
One of the gorier and more witless horror films in recent memory. [19 Apr 1982]
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