The Being (1983)
This D-grade horror film stars not one, but THREE Oscar-winning actors (Martin Landau, Dorothy Malone, and Jose Ferrer)! Plus Ruth Buzzi, Kinky Friedman, and Kenny Rogers' ex wife. Yet the lead actor is the talent free Bill Osco, cast because he was the director/producer's husband. Trust me, it's a hoot.
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Cameron Bear commented
Martin Landau and Jose Ferrer struggle to prop up an 80s-era eco-parable about the dangers of nuclear waste and pregnancy. This is something that people apparently needed to be warned about, along with the dangers of ***********. Perhaps the primary danger of *********** is getting pregnant? Nobody can say for sure, but the locals decide to take a break from the terror to protest an adult business. Priorities, you know.
In brief, a mutant baby grows up to butcher most of a small town in Idaho. (The horrors of Idaho really come through in this flick.) A truly memorable yet laughable artifact of a simpler era where everyone expected to glow in the dark or turn into The Hulk if they were irradiated.
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Aaron Gritsch commented
A monster film in the same vein as Scared to Death and others that basically set Alien on Earth. A small boy is turned into a murderous creature who has really inconsistent features as it seems like a blob almost at times, but then you can shoot it. Martin Landau is also in this, but then, he for some reason seems to be in a lot of really bad horror films!
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Tornadoboy commented
Infinitely amusing 80's B-movie monster schlock about a radioactive mutant on a rampage co-starring the late/great Martin Landau back in his "desperate-for-any-acting-job" days. Also has other acting icons like Ruth Buzzy, Mel Ferrer and comedian Murray Langston in funny cameos, and overall the movie never takes itself too seriously.
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Tornadoboy commented
Here's the trailer: