The Beast Within (1982)
The cover art for the video box of this one states, "We dare you to sit through the last 30 minutes of this movie!" Actually, it should have read, "We dare you to sit through the whole 98 minutes without falling asleep". Is it really that bad? Well yeah, I'd say so. Allow me to give you a plot rundown if I may.
A newly married couple are driving to their honeymoon spot, which happens to be in some small, hillbilly town in Missippi of course. Driving at night, the hubby misses his exit, tries to turn around in the road, and of course, gets stuck. So, he decides to walk down the road to a nearby gas station leaving the wife alone in the car with the their dog. Now, unknown to the little lady, there is a giant, horny, cicada bug man out in these woods, who is out looking for a little action so to speak. The dog starts barking and going nuts, since dogs can detect giant bug men of course. Annoyed by the dogs barking, she lets it out only to venture into the woods alone to see what the commotion is all about. She comes across the bug man, screams and bumps her head on a tree, knocked unconscious. Now, since cicada bug men don't exactly have the greatest morals in the world, he decides to have some fun with the little lady before she wakes up, impregnating her with his cicada seed. Flash forward 17 years later, as the couple have a 17 year old son named Michael. I just want to say right now that the actor that played this kid was one ugly looking dude, looked like a pig or something to me. Anyway, Michael starts to have all the typical growing pains kids his age have, like you know, slowly turning into a bug and stuff.
The whole plotline in the middle was nothing more than a terribly confused mess. I think it went along the lines that Micheal's transformation into a bug is actually his cicada dad coming back to life, through his offspring, or something. They never explain how his dad, who was once human, turned himself into a bug either. Lame. The movies only selling point was that it was one of the first films to use bladder effect type makeup. The effects are still pretty impressive today I suppose, I prefer that stuff to CGI anyway. The end was pretty gooey and messy, besides the transformation scene we get a nice decapitation thrown in for good measure as well. Overall though, to much of a confusing story and some really boring parts make this one a pretty slow ride. If not for the transformation at the end, this one would be quiet forgettable.