Evil Spawn (1987)

One of my all time favorites.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Okay. 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. Otherwise...if you see it, burn it. It's for the best you know.

Where to begin?First, you have little or no coherent plot (it was only due to this site I found out about the spore thing), a mad scientist who isn't so much mad as decrepit, special effects that aren't and seemingly random characters who stumble into the dire mess with little or no regard for coherency.As a final warning to people, consider this cautionary tale: On the British video release, it says on the back cover "The scenes depicted on this sleeve may be an artist's impression & may not necessarily represent actual scenes from the film". Hurm. Presumably this is so they can't get sued by the thousands of raging customers demanding a real film.

Like all Nite Owl Theater DVDs, this Fred Olan Ray film is a mess of tired special effects, poor acting, and nudity. There's a weak plot about a beautiful aging actress who turns into a six and a half foot tall rubber monster that rips people up here and there. There's a detective or something and a scientist or something..that doesn't really matter if you're just waiting to see a bare body in a following scene because that's all there is here. A cheap soap opera with pathetic monsters. There's alot of entertaining alien films out there..this isn't one of them.

... 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.