The Beast Within (1982)
Driving near a small Mississippi town in 1964, newlyweds Eli (Ronny Cox) and Caroline (Bibi Besch) experience car trouble. When Eli goes off to look for help, Caroline gets raped and is made pregnant by a horrible creature. Years later the child, now teenager Michael (Paul Clemens), finds himself undergoing an inexplicable physical change that compels him to return to that area in Mississippi. Soon dead bodies start piling up while his desperate parents struggle to understand what's happening.
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December 11, 2013
The Beast Within is an above-average monster movie with good actors and a sometimes comprehensible plot.
April 27, 2018
The beast within "The Beast Within" is a busy, riotous and confusing scenario that makes it seem as if the film is taking too long to make its point.
April 18, 2014
Forget the usual Transylvania or London settings: This horror flick has the distinction of being set in scary Mississippi.
October 30, 2008
It's a frightfully silly and insignificant horror film, whose only virtue is in the makeup.
December 16, 2013
A movie that suggests that not just the chickens but the locust-monsters inevitably will come home to roost in a postbellum South -- a 'Heart of Dixie' -- haunted by its violent, bigoted past.
July 26, 2002
Gruesome gore is the sole highlight.
January 08, 2016
Because Mora doesn't go the usual route for The Beast Within, the film ends up being a bit of an oddball creature feature that often stumbles a bit tonally and suffers from some pacing issues around the midway point.
