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Evil Spawn

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Alien microbes in an anti-aging serum transform an over-the-hill actress into an insect-like monster.

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Audience Member Bobby Bresee outshines her costars as a middle age actress desperate to retain a youthful appearance after being passed over for a younger actress for a top role. I can understand her frustration in being only offered parts in Italian horror films. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member It's bad, but call me crazy, I enjoyed it. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Disjointed, incoherent, badly acted, ineptly edited, silly, ridiculous, epic edwoodian failure that's so bad that it manages to amuse for all the wrong reasons. Probably the most fun you'll have watching a train-wreck all week. The film opens with footage of a spaceship and some onscreen verbiage about microbes from space. This has something to do with a scientist making a drug to stop the aging process. That scientist is none other than John Carradine, who appears to have done this film about an hour before he died (in fact, the Carradine footage was shot separately and edited in; Carradine never knew he was in "Evil Spawn"). The scientist's assistant poisons him, steals the serum, gives it to an aging actress, and thus unleashes a monster. A very silly-looking rubber monster with a bug head and which makes cicada noises. The monster, which doesn't appear until about 45 minutes into this 75 minute bomb, then kills a couple of people before the actress' biographer delivers unto us the moral of the flick in just the way that Ed Wood would have done it. None of the cast or crew of this flick had the first bit of talent or, apparently, any clue as to what they were doing. The actors are all horrible, even John Carradine, who is clearly old, sick and about to die. The direction is largely non-existent. The special effects are literally laughable; I know that I laughed out loud several times! Even the lighting and sound are bad, and the cameraman and director didn't know how to block a shot between them. "Evil Spawn" is a rambling, ridiculous mess, and you might just find some guilty pleasure in it! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Bobby Bresee outshines her costars as a middle age actress desperate to retain a youthful appearance after being passed over for a younger actress for a top role. I can understand her frustration in being only offered parts in Italian horror films. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member hahahahaha Love Bobbee B Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Inte fan var Richard Harrison och Gordon Mitchell med i den här? Hur som helst, det här är sån där film som det inte finns någon ursäkt alls att du sitter och tittar på, snack som "jo men det är kult" eller "gud vakitschigt" eller "det är coolt med dåliga filmer" funkar inte, att se den här filmen är som att göra något extremt jobbigt och obehagligt, du kommer fråga dig själv under den dryga timme den pågår "varför trycker jag inte av?" "varför ser jag på sånt här?" "varför tittar jag inte på normala filmer och börjar med pingis eller handboll" svaret ärenkelt, har du en gång trillat dit på trash film är det enormt svårt att bryta begäret, du som inte ha fastnat än, börja inte, it`s hell man. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Alien microbes in an anti-aging serum transform an over-the-hill actress into an insect-like monster.
Director
Kenneth J. Hall, Ted Newsom
Producer
Fred Olen Ray, Tony Brewster
Screenwriter
Kenneth J. Hall, Ted Newsom
Production Co
American Independent Productions
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Oct 11, 2005
Runtime
1h 20m