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Evil Spawn

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USA  •    •  100m  •    •  Directed by: Kenneth J. Hall, Ted Newsom, Fred Olen Ray.  •  Starring: Bobbie Bresee, Drew Godderis, Dawn Wildsmith, Fox Harris, Melissa Moore, John Terrence, Pamela Gilbert, Mark Anthony, Leslie Eve, Chis Kobin, Sue Mashaw, Gary J. Levinson, Michael Deak.  •  Music by: Paul Natzke.
        Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on ageing, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an ageing actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.

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I've seen some low budget films in my time. Some of them have been quite entertaining on a basic scale of laughing at how bad they are, and others have been absolutely dire. One film which falls at the bottom end of this bad film scale is METAMORPHOSIS. I knew I was in for a bad time as soon as the credits showed up. Well, maybe I shouldn't say the "credits", as I'm not exactly sure what they were. Bad computer titles appeared over a scene of what looked like (and was) someone holding a Camcorder out of a car window, and just taping the view in front of them. Wow, great credits. Then the "film" began.

I have to say, even at the low price I paid for it, I was sorely disappointed. Another case of "don't judge a book by its cover", this video sleeve had a cool design but the film itself was nothing like it. Most of the time we were watching Bobbie Bresee (an apparent horror icon of the '80s, she was in this and GHOULIES...but the question is, where is she now?) talk and chat to her friends.

The trouble with the film is that everything is so s-l-o-w. One slow motion scene of Bresee going to collect an Oscar was shown twice in its prolonged agony. John Carradine turns up at the beginning for two minutes and dies (he probably saw how bad the film was). I guess the producer thought adding in some gratuitous nudity would make people enjoy the film. He was wrong. Forrest J Ackerman turns up in a comedy cameo again, what was it with him and bad low budget films of the '80s? The film is so bad at one point the camera isn't even in focus. The acting is atrocious as well. This film is only worth watching if you want to see how bad it is.


Review by Leofwine_draca from the Internet Movie Database.