The Beast Within
1982
He Was On The Verge Of Becoming A Man... Eater!
Directed by Philippe Mora
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A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
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- Director
- Philippe Mora
- Written by
- Tom Holland
- Produced by
- Gabriel Katzka, Harvey Bernhard
- Composer
- Les Baxter
- Editors
- Bert Lovitt, Robert Brown
- Studios
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Katzka
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Language
- English
- Rating
- R
- TMDB
- 5.5/10 (131 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 17% Rotten
- Metacritic
- 42/100
- IMDb
- 5.6/10 (4,762 votes)
Cast
Ronny Cox
Eli MacCleary
Bibi Besch
Caroline MacCleary
Paul Clemens
Michael MacCleary
R.G. Armstrong
Doc Schoonmaker
L.Q. Jones
Sheriff Pool
Don Gordon
Judge Curwin
Katherine Moffat
Amanda Platt
Logan Ramsey
Edwin Curwin
John Dennis Johnston
Horace Platt
Ron Soble
Tom Laws
Luke Askew
Dexter Ward
Meshach Taylor
Deputy Herbert
Boyce Holleman
Doc Odom
Crew
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