Review – The Beast Within

For an indie horror picture from the early 80s, this could have been worse. A married couple’s car breaks down in the Mississippi backwoods, and while husband is off trying to find a tow, monster comes out of the woods and rapes wife. Years later, the child born from this unholy union starts having problems a bit beyond the normal, adolescent growing pains: killing the neighbors, transforming into a beast, continuing the family sexual assault tradition, that sort of thing. So this thing has a couple of unpleasantly graphic rape scenes. On the other hand, it also has a reasonably good script and solid special effects, at least for the period and budget level. Mildly amusing