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The Beast Within

USA 1981
produced by
Harvey Bernhard, Gabriel Katzka, Jack B. Bernstein (executive) for Katzka/United Artists
directed by Philippe Mora
starring Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, L.Q. Jones, Don Gordon, R.G. Armstrong, Katherine Moffat, Logan Ramsey, John Dennis Johnston, Ron Soble, Luke Askew, Meshach Taylor, Boyce Holleman, Natalie Nolan Howard, Malcolm McMillan, Fred D. Meyer
screenplay by Tom Holland, based on a novel by Edward Levy, music by Les Baxter

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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In 1964, in the woods surrounding the small village Nioba, a woman is brutally raped by someone who's not quite human.

17 years later: Michael McCleary (Paul Clemens), always a perfectly healthy 17-years old, has suddenly fallen gravely ill, & his father Eli (Ronny Cox) has come to terms with the fact that he might not be the boy's real ather after all, but it was the progeny of above mentioned rape. So he & his wife Caroline (Bibi Besch) go back to Nioba to find out about the boy's real father ... & stumble upon a terrible secret that only slowly unravels before them.

Meanwhile, Michael has gone to nioba on his own, as well, , finds an abandoned hut in the woods ... & gets possessed by something or someone (yes, it's his real father) who makes him brutally & gorily kill th members of the Curven-family. But between all the killings he still finds time to fall in love with Amanda (Katherine Moffat), curiously enough also one of the Curvens ...

Meanwhile, investigations of the murders are conducted by the local sheriff (L.Q.Jones) & curiously enough Michael's father Eli, who isn't a law-enfordcer or anything even remotely resembling a law enforcer. Noone suspects Michael though, but he pleads Amanda to leave the village so he can't kill her, & pleads his parents & the local doctor (R.G.Armstrong) to kill him when he feels his condition worsening .... & worsening it does, because suddenly he turns into a demon, & goes on a killing spree, killing all of the Curvens (& some other villagers as well), safe for amanda - who has made the getaway Michael has asked her for but was met with an accident on her way out of nioba - & the local judge (Don Gordon), who asks the police for protetion ... but Eli, who for no reason at all is in charge, refuses to help unless the judge comes clean. So the judge tells the story of one of his relatives who caught his wife with another man & as a consequence shot his wife & chained the man up in the cellar & there fed him human flesh (why ?) for years ... & all his relatives like the judge, the mortician (Luke Askew) & the newspaper editor (Logan Ramsey) helped him to hush everythng up & supplied him with human flesh. Eventually the man got out though & raped Caroline. He has since died of course, but now Michael is here to exact his (real) father'sa revenge, & soon he breaks into the police station, kills the judge, then makes a getaway & on the road out of Nioba he finds Amanda, who has just woken up from her car accident (?), & he rapes her.

Eventually though, Eli's & the sheriff's posse catch up withthe demon/boy, & ultimately he engages in a fight with his own (foster)father, & seems to win, too, when his mother blows his head off.

The end.

But wait until the son out of Michael's rapeing Amanda turns 17 in 1998 ...

 

Badly scripted monstermovie that blends teenage romance (yawn) with a murder mystery & all-out horrors - but is remarkably bad at that. Somehow the componennts just fail to click, the demon Michael turns into makes no sense at all n the murder mystery, the murder mystery is pretty predictable from the start & the teenage romance subplot is an old-fashioned (but not in the good way) love story by the numbers. Furthermore all the characters seriously lack dimension, while the film lacks any real tension (partly tue to the fact that all those killed are total pricks, so who cares, really).

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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