Beast Within/Bat People

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The Bat Within..........2007-09-17

First, THE BEAST WITHIN is a great, bloody piece of cinematic slime from the early 80s. Ronny Cox (Robocop) is a father out to find out the horrible truth about his "son". You see, junior is the spawn of the mutant-rapist that attacked his mum 17 years earlier. Now, several grisly murders may be connected to this awful past event. TBW is memorable for the hideous transformation scene, where the killer's head expands into a beachball-like size and shape! Yecch! If movies like EVILSPEAK or XTRO tickle your gore-spot, then TBW will be a thrill! L.Q. Jones (Brotherhood Of Satan), R.G. Armstrong (Evilspeak, Race With The Devil) and a young Meshak Taylor also star. THE BAT PEOPLE is the add-on feature here, w/ Stewart Moss (doing his best Bradford Dillman immitation) as the odd Dr. Beck. Beck is bitten by bats in a cave, causing him to become a bloodthirsty maniac. If you enjoy movies like HIDEOUS SUN DEMON or TRACK OF THE MOONBEAST, then this one might be for you. If not, it could be quite an effective sleeping aid. Still, THE BEAST WITHIN is worth the price of this DVD on it's own infamous merit...

a different kind of batman .......2007-09-04

looking for fun on a rainy night ? the bat people is a forgotten little film from the seventies with the always underrated michael pataky .
a scientist is bitten by rabid bats that transmit a virius transforming him into a half man half bat .
there is a weird sexual tension in the film between the scientist and his wanting to be pregnant wife . the film today in the wake of the aids epidemic plays differently and adds depth that wasnt there when the film was made .
that said this is a mildly entertaining film with all the grindhouse horror cliches of the 1970s . a fun little film .
the second feature is not worth mentioning needless to say more transforming teenagers out looking for revenge . tired .

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Utawarerumono 5: Beast Within
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ASIN: B000RHMQK8
Release Date: 2007-08-28

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Everything about him is shrouded in mystery: The mask he can't remove. The past he can't unravel. And the very survival of the people who have chosen him as their leader. Can he unlock the memories that elude him? Or will he remain a stranger - even to himself?

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1982
A guy who loves horror film was bored
Total Turd...deal with it.
The script without.
WOWSERS!!!!!!

The Beast Within
Starring: Ronny Cox , Bibi Besch , Paul Clemens , Don Gordon , and R.G. Armstrong
Director: Philippe Mora
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ASIN: B00005K3O7
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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1982.......2007-01-12

This is on of the last few 'B' Films the I enjoy .The acting is poor and silly like it should be and the horror is great for its early 80's time.I liked seeing the guy that played a cop in the film "HEAD"and the hippie dude from "EZRDR" working in a morg.It makes me wonder what they have been doing all these years.

A guy who loves horror film was bored.......2005-12-05

Great cast wasted. Ron Cox, LQ Jones, R. G. Armstrong and others.

Teadius meandering plot. Dumb setups and forced acting. The director gets the worst performances out of some of the best character actors.

This is one of those movies where you are completey distacted in wondering..."why is this not working?" - but there is so much...

For a B horror TBWI aprears to have been well budgeted as can be seen by quality actors, camera lenses, film stock,lighting, music, audio and special effects. What is left out is actor-direction, a story, a screen play, atmosphere, dynamics and imagination.

The director has the actors give the same reaction whether they take a wrong turn during a pleasent Sunday drive or they witness their son turn into a murderous pulsating monster.

The plot, as well as the slimy monster are undignified and unintentionally very silly.

The talented Lex Baxter has written the scores for some of the very best horrors. Even Lex could not not help this film. Albeit he really tried.

For me (a horror movie lover) I was very bored. But the DVD has excelent sound and picture quality from very good film stock.

Total Turd...deal with it........2005-06-22

OK, let's all be honest here...for a change. What this movie has is a mythic beast having sex with defenseless women (knocked unconscious by banging their heads into trees), lying alone in the wildnerness.
Anyone who watches it and enjoys it, is a freak. Anyone that purchases it online (or on any other "line") is likewise a freak.
If this is what you want from entertainment then rent two hookers and an ape costume.
S. Daily Warren

The script without........2005-01-13

The Beast Within (Phillippe Mora, 1982)

I have been a huge fan of Edward Levy's two novels since they originally came out. Thus, when a film version of The Beast Within appeared not long after the novel, I was thrilled. As I was still underage at the time, I had to wait until it popped up on video to actually see it, however. I remember being disappointed that the beginning of Levy's book didn't make it into the film, but that's about it.

That was twenty years ago, and I just watched The Beast Within again to see if I'd overlooked anything the first time around. I did. I overlooked how awful the whole movie is.

Mora began his career with two very well-received documentaries before turning his attention to fictional subjects. His first big-screen drama, Mad Dog Morgan, has its defenders. The Beast Within was his next movie, and from that point on, I don't think he's made a single film defended by anyone but studio execs looking for a quick buck. In this version of the story (cf. my review of Levy's novel for what this is really supposed to be about), we open with something raping a newlywed. Cut to seventeen years later, when the son of said something and said newlywed is dying of an undisclosed pituitary gland problem. Except that when he gets out of the hospital and drinks blood, he gets temporarily better. (No, since I know that's what you're thinking, this isn't a vampire movie. It's something far, far stupider.)

All of the plausibility that Levy puts into the first fifty pages of the novel (which are condensed into a monologue at the beginning of the film, with time changes that make it utterly unbelievable) is missing. All of the tension of the book's scenario has been erased by the elimination of one of the book's main characters and a complete change of relationship for the remaining two. The book's thoroughly cheesy, thoroughly wonderful ending has been utterly abandoned. The script for this (which was written by Tom Holland, also responsible for such script classics as Psycho II, Cloak and Dagger, and The Langoliers) may have remotely resembled the book in the first draft, but by the time it got to the filming stage, it was a completely different beast. (There is a meditation to be made on the metatheatrical aspects of the script as parallel to the main character, but the movie disgusts me to the point where I'm not willing to be the one to write it.)

Given that, the film has to be looked at as a completely separate entity from the book. Is it any good if you slice off Edward Levy's name? Absolutely not. The highly-touted special effects are so fake as to be funny (though some of them you'll recognize from later films, which makes me wonder if there was some sort of influence stemming from this, as scary as the idea is). The story is a basic rehash of a number of different movies. It COULD have been done well (in fact, Harry Bromley Davenport would take a good deal of this material, stick it into a sci-fi framework, add some pieces of its contemporary E.T., and come up with the brilliant XTRO a year later). But it's impossible to watch this film, even if you're not a filmmaker yourself, and see hundreds of places where Mora could have done better with camerawork, editing, lighting, or any of another twenty or so aspects of directing a movie. Otherwise good actors like Don Gordon (Papillon, The Final Conflict), L. Q. Jones (The Virginian), and Luke Askew (South of Heaven, West of Hell) are wasted in oceans of overacting.

If you're a fan of Edward Levy's wonderful novel, I suggest you forget this movie exists. In fact, that goes for the rest of you, as well. I tried to find a single redeeming quality about this film, and the only thing that came to mind is "if someone else tries to do Levy's novel, they can't do any worse." (zero)

WOWSERS!!!!!!.......2004-07-15

This is the original frightfest that my sister and nephew bragged about sooo many years ago about. That was 1982 folks! i purchased this dvd a couple of years back just because i thought of them. I remember all the chats about how horrible the scary parts were. well, it was laughable now but i bet really gross then? this is the kinda flick designed to keep you company on a lonely Friday or Saturday night folks! the story involves a woman who had been raped one night and eventually got pregnant from her attacker...a weird bug cicada creature. The reason for the attack stemmed from him wanting to secure his revenge on his enemies. Only by returning via his offspring can he carry about his malevolent plan. Cicadas sleep under the earth for 17 years and then return in the summer to eat and spawn and that's the basis of the creature in this flick. Unfortunately for his son life will be shortlived and rather ugly since he never gets to live out his dreams, love his girlfriend nor get out of such a boring town? Just where in the world is this town anyway? The directors and creators of this wacky freight fest state that "absolutely no one will be able to widthstand the last few minutes of this film!" Well, I did and it was nice to see a shoe string budget horror flick be both gross and disturbing while still maintaining a somewhat cohesive plot? There are no REAl stars but it did include actor Meshach Taylor (from Designing Women fame) who plays a minimal part in this wacky fest. I recommend this weird movie to all of you who enjoy cheesy horror movies and the like. I just wish the plot would have been a little better but that's ok. I just wanted to know why Meshach always played bit parts in horror flicks? At least he didn't get split in half like he did in THE OMEN 2. Yikes!

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Not the film Beast within
really creepy
Collinsville
Four good films
Awsome and Creepy

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ASIN: B00018WMUW
Release Date: 2004-02-03

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Not the film Beast within.......2007-09-17

Please be aware this is not the Film Beast Within it is a collection of 4 cheap straight to dvd low budget horror fodder

really creepy.......2005-08-17

This is the film I used to break out from time to time and show friends back in the day because NOBODY saw it at the theatre. It always got a very good reaction because it is a very creepy film. Even today the stop-motion effects will give most folks the creeps even while they're busy knocking the older effects model. The film seemed to be a labor of love from director Phillipe Mora because there are some genuine creepy moments that still work to this day 22 years later. Ronny Cox is the sole "name " in this movie although many may recognize R.G. Armstrong, Don Gordon, or L.Q. Jones. Don't let my positive review so far sell you however, there are plenty of lousey acted, slow paced scenes that add up to nothing here except filler acting as background info for the scenes of the "change" that takes place for the lead actor. The real emphasis in the movie is the special effects which were for the day awesome, but today are a bit goofy, but genre buffs will appreciate the effort nontheless. Still a good rent or cheap purchase.

Collinsville.......2004-02-19

One of the films in this set really stands out: Collinsville. It has great production values for a lowbudget film, interesting charcters, is well shot in cool locations. It exceeded my expectations, and has ONE HELL OF A TWIST near the end. Watch it and you'll see what im talking about. 4 out of 5 stars. dizzy.

Four good films.......2004-02-08

Can't beat these films for ten bucks. Some freaky stuff.

Awsome and Creepy.......2004-02-08

These four films are great for night in the dorms being creeped out . All follow a theme of a the beast within all of us with characters that aren't that different than people you know, except that they all have a dark side. Particulary notable in the DVD collection is the film Searching For Haizmann. This a creepy tale about three college kids looking for facts on the anti-christ. They find more than they bargained for.

The story is awsome and it ends in a way I would never have guessed. The thing about this film too is especially the two extremely hot female leads. In their search they interview a particularly creepy character played by the greatest actor of all time, Clint Howard. Me and my friends kept watching his scenes over and over. Tippi Hedren from the old Hitchcock films is also in this one which is cool. And that guy who played Flounder in Animal House plays a completely wacked out professor obsessed with the anti-christ.

Back to the hot chicks, they're worth the price of admission alone. Jenny Mollen who you've seen as the wearwolf in the TV show Angel, plays Grace in this film. And Grace is aptly named. We've all been wanting to see more of her since that Angel episode. And if that's not enough Colombe Jacobsen who played that goth chick in Men In Black II is in this one too playing the part of Hannah. But in this movie she's not goth at all, she's more like a hippi chick--and hot, hot, hot.

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The Beast Within: Unravel the mysteries of the two most important organs in the human body the heart and the brain. First, take a look at how frail the human heart is as an emergency team frantically works to save a heart-attack victim. Then, meet a man whose brain cannot correctly transmit signals because he's consumed too much alcohol. Crash: A husband and wife are critically injured in a car crash he's unconscious and suffers from epileptic fits; she has a punctured lung and is left with a blood clot. See how the force of impact damages the delicate internal structures of their bodies and how doctors work to repair their injuries.

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