A dying scientist leaves her son a research problem with tentacles and deeply inconvenient family implications. The laboratory melodrama is pulpy, but the gooey practical creature work turns the question of inheritance into a spectacularly unpleasant house clearance.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
Acting
6/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
2/10
Dialogue
5/10
Rewatchability
7/10
“The family tree has developed additional tentacles.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 56
Synopsis and movie facts
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
