Evil Spawn

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.

... 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.

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.

EVIL SPAWN (1987) *1/2 (Out of 4*'s) Director: Kenneth J. Hall. Bobbie Bresee, Drew Godderis, John Terrence, Donna Shock, John Carradine.

An underground woman scientist offers a has-been actress a drug that promises to restore her youth. After second guessing the idea and finally taking it, she gets sick and turns into a beast at night and begins killing whoever is nearby!

Shamelessly makes you feel sorry for the lead character. The acting is shy and somewhat overdone. The neat special effects look much better on the back of the video box than they do during the movie.

Not oscar material, but all movies like these are great for parties!

The quality and design look of the monster looks very quite lower budget, as the acting isn't great either. About an aging Hollywood actress Lynn Roman (Bobbie Bresee) wanting to portray a part in a film which is more qualified for younger women actresses (aged 21- 25), as she pirated to be in her 30's if older. The main cause is this actress Lynn receives an unwanted guess in an evil scientist (which she is unaware of) and this scientists gives her a special type of medicine for Lynn to take to look younger.

Of course, out of curiosity Lynn ends up taking the medicine thud turning her into an evil monster or creature of sorts.

The film feels longer than it is which isn't a good sign and it's cheesy but not so fun. There is a brief shower scene with Lynn as well as a lengthier skin scene with one of her assistant's Elaine (Pamela Gilbert) unrobing walking nude in a pool taking a late night swim (roughly 50:40).

The animated cover art design is certainly something which helped audiences to watch this film, but overall the film as a whole is not great.