THE BEAST WITHIN Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

BEAST WITHIN, THE

(1982)

US Bibi Besch plays a woman who is raped by a swamp thing during her honeymoon. Seventeen years later her son under goes some sort of freaky metamorphosis that turns him into a giant cicada monster . Although it is supposed to imitate a '50s style monster movie I found the story rather boring and the monster some what laughable. I had rented this movie because the box said it was one of the most shocking movies ever made and warned the viewer to beware of the last few minutes. I took it as a sign of good things to come, too bad the super cicada gimmick killed the shock ending. Ronny Cox also appears as the father of the cicada boy. A rather poor attempt to use a Kafka idea.......

Review by: Losman

Email: losman@express-news.net

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