"The Monster Within"

[driftingsun]

Hey, anybody else hear of this one? It's called "The Beast Within" and it's this creepy, sort of surreal film involving a teenage boy who supposedly was the product of a rape, and this is where it gets really disturbing, the boy's mother was raped by some sort of mutant, half-man, half-insect (cicada) and as time goes by the boy starts to feel the call of his insect half, culminating in one of the most gruesome and horrific (if a little fake-looking) metamorphosis scenes I have seen in a horror film (the most gruesome for me would have to be the last fifteen minutes of the Jeff Goldblum 1980's version of "The Fly")

The weird part about it is they don't ever seem to elaborate on the origins of the original mutant man/cicada creature (the father); it's implied that the guy was shut in a hole in the ground and tortured for a lengthy amount of time, like years or something, by a group of people, but I don't see how that results in a mutant creature. Anyways, anybody else catch this film? I saw it on Joe Bob's Monstervision, when I was in college.
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Sorry, I got the title wrong the first time, it should read "The Beast Within", and not "The Monster Within". I don't know how to edit the thread heading to make it display the correct title, could somebody do this please?
Thanx.

[Merf]

One of my ex-girlfriends bought this for me on videotape. After she dumped me, I threw it out without having watched it.

A few years later I dropped ten bones on a used DVD copy at a nearby Blockbuster.

Great flick. Ronnie Cox is exceptional. Bibi Besch's hair was more frightening to me than the cicada creature. Paul Clemens... well. I don't like Paul Clemens. I've never liked him in anything I've seen, and frankly, the man looks like he has to poop.

Creature effects were great. The transformation made me wet myself with glee--I'm a mark for old-school bladder-and-latex transformation sequences, and this one stood out for me.

Anyhow. I have to poop.

[Jigsaw]

I know this thread is over a year old, but I watched this flick last night on my DVR box and found it to be okay. I probably need to see it a few more times to determine how I feel about it, but it's a very bizarre movie. This is one of those movies that has you in a constant "WTF?" state of mind as it goes on. I'd like to read the novel it's based on, sometime.

[God of Thunder]

I saw it on IFC a month or so ago (I had been meaning to for a while) and I got up until the last eight minutes or so... and fell asleep. Of course, I woke up about 10 minutes after the movie ended. That pissed me off, because I really liked the movie up until then. I'll probably have to buy the DVD of it.