Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA scientist is using Microbes in experiments but dies before the work is finished. An aging actress injects herself the serum and the bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug alien result... Alles lesenA scientist is using Microbes in experiments but dies before the work is finished. An aging actress injects herself the serum and the bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug alien resulting in an attrition problem among her detractors.A scientist is using Microbes in experiments but dies before the work is finished. An aging actress injects herself the serum and the bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug alien resulting in an attrition problem among her detractors.
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Dawn Wildsmith
- Evelyn Avery
- (as Donna Shock)
Fox Harris
- Harry
- (as Jerry Fox)
Crystal Shaw Martell
- Secretary
- (as Crystal Shaw)
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How do you make a bad movie even worse? Apparently you hire Ted Newsom, give him a camcorder and put him under the not-so-watchful eye of producer Fred Olen Ray. Here we have the very fun Grade-Z classic EVIL SPAWN (1986) by director Kenneth J. Hall reedited and with new and pointless inserts shot on tape. The new scenes feature Jay Richardson and Suzanne Ager as cops sitting in a car talking, eating doughnuts and fighting an awful hand-puppet monster, Gordon Mitchell sitting at a desk on the phone and Richard Harrison turning into an pathetic rubbery monster and ripping Melissa Moore's top off. Scenes from the original film easily provide the most entertaining moments in this version, so you might as well seek it out. Forrest J. Ackerman is seen briefly in the old and the new footage.
EVIL SPAWN (original version): 5 out of 10
New footage contained on THE ALIEN WITHIN: 1 out of 10
EVIL SPAWN (original version): 5 out of 10
New footage contained on THE ALIEN WITHIN: 1 out of 10
... is in the first fifteen minutes of the movie. Some woman who's about to get chowed down on by some unseen evil opts to take the suicide route. She jams a gun into her mouth and get this... they cut to a shot of the wall behind her, brains and muck splatter the wall and a second later, you hear the gunshot. Give the sound editors a friggin' award! I rented this over ten years ago because my friend liked the nude woman on the cover so much that he had to see it. I haven't let him live it down since. Avoid at all costs and I do mean all.
My review was written in September 1987 after watching the movie on Camp video cassette.
"Evil Spawn", previously titled "Alive by Night" and "Deadly Sting", is a tolerable, poverty row variation on Roger Corman's 1959 Susan Cabot-starrer "The Wasp Woman". Topliner Bobbie Bresee provides enough flesh and ham acting to please camp followers (pic appropriately is released by Camp Video, from Fred Olen Ray's new AIP production banner.
In a script far too overloaded with in-jokes on the world of low-budget filmmaking, Bresee toplines as Lynn Roman, a fading superstar actress who jumps at the chance to look younger via a formula given her by unscrupulous scientist Evelyn Avery (played by Donna Shock, a pseudonym for Dawn Wildsmith). Side effects turn her, werewolf-style, into an insect-like monster.
Though some of the monsters on view are rubbery, pic's gore is impressive and combines with enough nudity to keep the hardcore horror fans alert, however, pic's jokes are unfunny and storyline is a drag. Besides Bresee, a cult figure from "Mausoleum", Wildsmith, from "Surf Nazis Must Die", is an elegant villainess. John Carradine appears in one scene of "generic footage", a lengthy dialog opposite Wildsmith in which both thesps speak entirely in euphemisms, suitable for splicing into any thriller film.
"Evil Spawn", previously titled "Alive by Night" and "Deadly Sting", is a tolerable, poverty row variation on Roger Corman's 1959 Susan Cabot-starrer "The Wasp Woman". Topliner Bobbie Bresee provides enough flesh and ham acting to please camp followers (pic appropriately is released by Camp Video, from Fred Olen Ray's new AIP production banner.
In a script far too overloaded with in-jokes on the world of low-budget filmmaking, Bresee toplines as Lynn Roman, a fading superstar actress who jumps at the chance to look younger via a formula given her by unscrupulous scientist Evelyn Avery (played by Donna Shock, a pseudonym for Dawn Wildsmith). Side effects turn her, werewolf-style, into an insect-like monster.
Though some of the monsters on view are rubbery, pic's gore is impressive and combines with enough nudity to keep the hardcore horror fans alert, however, pic's jokes are unfunny and storyline is a drag. Besides Bresee, a cult figure from "Mausoleum", Wildsmith, from "Surf Nazis Must Die", is an elegant villainess. John Carradine appears in one scene of "generic footage", a lengthy dialog opposite Wildsmith in which both thesps speak entirely in euphemisms, suitable for splicing into any thriller film.
A scientist is locked in the laboratory by his assistant Evelyn Avery (Dawn Wildsmith) and a mutating creature attacks him. He turns into a monster and then he attacks a young man outside the building, but is killed by his girlfriend that crashes her car on him. Meanwhile, the aging actress Lynn Roman (Bobbie Bresee), who is a former famous star, is fighting for a lead role in a movie directed by Mark Randall (Mark Anthony). However, Mark wants a younger actress between twenty and twenty-five years old for the role. Out of the blue, Evelyn meets Lynn and tells that her secretary Elaine (Pamela Gilbert) allowed her to meet Lynn to show an injection with a serum developed by Dr. Emil Zeitman (John Carradine) that would make her younger again. Lynn uses the experiment and turns into a monster, becoming a threat to her friends.
"Evil Spawn" is a 1987 B-movie that recalls a sci-fi from the 50's with gore and boobs. Sort of an encounter of "The Wasp Woman" with Playboy and blood. The screenplay is confused and the only thing really not good is the cameo of John Carradine that neither deserves his name in the credit not this film in his filmography. Pamela Gilbert in the swimming-pool is maybe one of the best parts of this forgettable film, released only on VHS in Brazil. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): 'Evil Spawn - A Semente do Mal" ("Evil Spawn - The Seed of Evil")
"Evil Spawn" is a 1987 B-movie that recalls a sci-fi from the 50's with gore and boobs. Sort of an encounter of "The Wasp Woman" with Playboy and blood. The screenplay is confused and the only thing really not good is the cameo of John Carradine that neither deserves his name in the credit not this film in his filmography. Pamela Gilbert in the swimming-pool is maybe one of the best parts of this forgettable film, released only on VHS in Brazil. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): 'Evil Spawn - A Semente do Mal" ("Evil Spawn - The Seed of Evil")
Bobbie Breese plays fading movie queen Lynn Roman who is unhappy because younger actresses receive all interesting film roles.The assistant of deceased Dr.Zeitman offers her the potion which should stop the process of aging.It works perfectly until Ruth turns into hideous bug creature with an urge to kill..."Evil Spawn" is a cheesy creature feature flick with plenty of rubbery gore and gratuitous nudity.The main performance of Bobbie Bresse is actually quite decent and it's nice to see cameos of John Carradine and Forrest Ackerman.I haven't seen re-edited version of "Evil Spawn" called "The Alien Within".6 rubber creatures of 10.The scene of nude swimming in the pool is truly priceless.
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- WissenswertesJohn Carradine's appearance as "Dr. Zeitman" was a "generic" scene shot by Fred Olen Ray with the intention of dropping it into subsequent films. The dialogue uttered by Carradine and actress Dawn Wildsmith (Ray's wife at the time) makes no specific references to the film's plot, allowing it to be easily re-used.
- Alternative VersionenOriginally filmed in 3-D by Cinematographer Chris James Condon.
- VerbindungenEdited into The Alien Within (1990)
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