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<div> <B>Producers.........Harvey Bernhard & Gabriel Katzka</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up effects by Tomas R. Burman</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Novel by Edward Levy</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Eli MacCleary............Ronny Cox (</B><I><B>Deliverance, Robocop, Total Recall</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Caroline MacCleary..Bibi Besch (</B><I><B>Betrayal, Kill Me Again</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Michael MacCleary...Paul Clemens (</B><I><B>Promises in the Dark</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Judge Curwin...........Don Gordon (</B><I><B>The Borrower, Bullitt, Papillon</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Doc...........................R.G. Armstrong (</B><I><B>Children of the Corn, Predator</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Emmanda Platt.........Kitty Moffat </B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff Pool...............L.Q. Jones (</B><I><B>Brotherhood of Satan, Standing Tall</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Edwin Curwin............Logan Ramsey (</B><I><B>Head, The Hoodlum Priest, Say Yes</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Horace Platt..............John Dennis Johnston (</B><I><B>Miracle in the Wilderness</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Tom Lews.................Ron Soble </B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Ward...................Luke Askew (</B><I><B>Kung Fu-The Movie, Walking Tall II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Deputy Taylor...........Meshach Taylor (</B><I><B>Designing Women, Mannequin & Two</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Doctor Odom............J. Boyce Holleman</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Pretty good monster transformation. The country songs were co-written and sung by Ronnie Cox (Mr. McCleary) who did the same in </B><I><B>Deliverance</B></I><B> and is aside from his musical ability, an actor everyone recognizes without knowing his name. He'll than us for bringing that up. If people were smart, they'd remember the roles in </B><I><B>Beverly Hills Cop II</B></I><B>, </B><I><B>Robocop</B></I><B>, </B><I><B>Total Recall</B></I><B>, and particularly </B><I><B>Deliverance</B></I><B>. Aside from Cox, the list of faces you'll recognize is endless, though you won't know their names. Why do character actors do so well in horror movies? See Stephen King's </B><I><B>It</B></I><B>. The monster was basically uninspiring after its transformation. There are rape scenes in this movie, and they will disturb viewers. The rape scenes, however, are integral to the plot development as they constitute the mechanism of the monster's rebirth. The score by master Les Baxter is one of his best. His best is The </B><I><B>Dunwich Horror</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Nioba, Mississippi 1964. Something breaks free of its chain, comes out of its keep, and galumphs through the foggy woods. A young couple's car stalls out in the mud. The husband leaves his wife to go get help. Leaving the car, like you never should in swampy woods in a horror movie, to investigate what the dog is agitated about, Carolyn is raped by a monster. Jackson Mississippi seventeen years later. Dr. Odom reports that their son has a chemical imbalance an "occult malignancy". His pituitary gland has gone out of control. A month ago, he was fine. Now his biochemistry is raging out of control. The doctor has done tests on the parents. Their DNA is all right. The missing variable is the rape. Who was the rapist? Is there something about his genes? Michael has been having dreams about something in the basement that's trying to get out. The McClearys go back to the woods where she was raped. They find that a man named Lionel had been brutally murdered there. Sheriff Poole was a deputy then. He relates that Lionel was ripped about and eaten. His house was set fire to. No sign of the killer ever turned up. Meanwhile, Michael has disappeared from the hospital. Something has gotten hold of Michael's mind. He opens a cellar keep, and urges some denizen below to come out. He can hear it snuffling about. Michael arrives at a drunk's house. The drunk, Edwin, gives Michael the money, and offers Michael a meal, but Michael finds something else more to his taste. Later, Michael, feeling more himself, goes to a young woman's house who helped him after the meal. Her father is Horace Platt, Lionel Kerwin's cousin. The sounds come that precede a feeding, but Michael resists it. Emanda is a Kerwin. Michael urges her to get in a car and leave. The cicadas are shedding their skins. Michael feels it. Will the force of the virgin cause him to destroy himself? Michael and Emanda look as though they are about to engage in a sexual situation when the dog comes around and drops an arm he dug up. When they dig up the bones of a woman, the doctor recognizes a steel joint--it belongs to girl long dead. The bones have been gnawed upon. A drunken Tom relates that the murderer is a Billy Connors, and he's come back to get the Kerwins. All of them. Billy could change like the locusts and the Cicadas, becoming something he isn't. What made Billy Connors a monster, and why has Dexter Ward, the mortician, been sending bodies somewhere else, leaving stones in the actual caskets? Edwin and Dexter are Kerwins, and they're dead. Billy had been a beauteous boy, he'd loved the woods. Even the bugs talked to him. Just like Michael. Michael's back in the hospital, and is getting brutish. Cicadas take seventeen years to come back. If that's not a horrifying image nothing is.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>