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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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07.19.09
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Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on ageing, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an ageing actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.
Movie Tagline:
Tonight she will love again and kill again.
Title: Evil Spawn
Release Date: September , 1987
Runtime: 70 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 2.4
Buried.com Rating: 3.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With E
Director(s):
Kenneth J. Hall
Ted Newsom
Fred Olen Ray
Cast:
Richard Harrison ...Max Adrian
Gordon Mitchell ...Dan Thorn
Jay Richardson ...Samanski
Suzanne Ager ...Erin West
Dawn Wildsmith ...Evelyn Avery (as Donna Shock)
Melissa Moore ...Monica Roarke
Crystal Shaw ...Secretary
Bobbie Bresee ...Lynn Roman
Drew Godderis ...Ross Anderson
John Terrence ...Brent Price
Fox Harris ...Harry Fox (as Jerry Fox)
Michael Deak ...Symanski
Pamela Gilbert ...Elaine Talbot
Mark Anthony ...Mark Randall
Forrest J Ackerman ...Pool Man
Leslie Eve ...Tracy
Sue Mashaw ...Betty
Gary J. Levinson ...Dr. Leibowitz
Roger McCoin ...Bordona
John Carradine ...Dr. Zeitman
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Frank Bresee
Tony Brewster
Chris J. Condon
Gary J. Levinson
Fred Olen Ray
Writer(s):
Kenneth J. Hall
Ted Newsom
Composer(s):
Paul Natzke
More Movie Taglines:
- Tonight she will love again and kill again.
Movie Trivia:
- Bobbie Bresee's actual Hollywood Hills house was used as the filming location for her character's home.
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John Carradine's appearance as "Dr. Zeitman" was a "generic" scene shot by Fred Olen Ray with the intention of dropping it into subsequent films. The dialogue uttered by Carradine and actress Dawn Wildsmith (Ray's wife at the time) makes no specific references to the film's plot, allowing it to be easily re-used.
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The only performer to be in "both" versions ("Evil Spawn" and "The Alien Within") is Forrest J Ackerman, who was hired by producer Fred Olen Ray to help tie the separate actions in the "revised version" together. Co-star Suzanne Ager came up with the title "The Alien Within"; working title was "Metamorph".
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Producer Fred Olen Ray is the only constant throughout the history of the project. He directed and produced the ambiguous scene between John Carradine and Dawn Wildsmith (then Mrs. Ray), ostensibly for a Frankenstein film; he produced (but did not direct) the whole of "Evil Spawn," written to include pre-extant Carradine footage; and he produced the re-edited "remake," "Alien Within." The approximately 35 minutes of new footage was shot in and around his home in Hollywood.
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Keywords:
Vanity, Mad Scientist, Director, Multiple Murders, Manager ...[more]
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Rating: 3.4 out of 10.0 - 69 votes cast total
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