The Beast Within (1982)

98 min · Horror, Monster Film, body horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, supernatural horror film

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Directors

Philippe Mora

Cast

Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, Don Gordon, R.G. Armstrong, Katherine Moffat, Logan Ramsey, John Dennis Johnston, L.Q. Jones, Luke Askew, Ron Soble, Boyce Holleman, Meshach Taylor

The story

In 1964 on a rural Mississippi backroad, newlyweds Caroline and Eli MacCleary get stranded. While Eli walks to a service station to retrieve a tow truck, an unseen creature escapes from a nearby cellar before attacking and raping Caroline. Eli and the service station attendant find the brutalized Caroline lying in the forest.

Catalogue themes and tags

Abnormality, Car Breakdown, Change, Ermordung, Frauenleiche, Fremde, Hair, Jugendliche, Killing, Mississippi, Monsters, Monstrosity, Murderer, Paternity, Pregancy and Birth, Psychose, Rape, Verletzung, Victim, Zeitgeschichte, alptraum, vater-sohn, B-movie, Horror, Creature Film

Genres

Horror, Monster Film, body horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, supernatural horror film

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