John's got a half brother... half human... half something else!
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.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Dec 20245/10
**_A rural house on the coast of SoCal and the genetic mutations thereof_** A doctor in Los Angeles (David Allen Brooks) is instructed by his dying mother, a revolutionary geneticist, to destroy her work at the family homestead. So, he leads a team up there, but their stay is interrupted by some… thing. "The Kindred" (1987) is similar in spirit to “The Boogens” from six years prior and the soon-to-come “Slugs.” It mixes HP Lovecraft with horror bits from “Halloween,” “Alien” and “Jaws.” For instance, there’s an aged doctor in the periphery who’s reminiscent of Donald Pleasence’s Dr. Loomis, just less noble (Rod Steiger). It’s okay, but seems off somehow and therefore is the least of these, which explains its obscurity. The female cast is decent with Talia Balsam (Sharon), Amanda Pays (Melissa) and Julia Montgomery (Cindy), but the director evidently didn’t know how to shoot women. While it won’t strike you at first, the movie ends up being a cabin-in-the-woods flick. It delivers the goods just enough if you’re in the mood for such a film but, like I said, it’s not exactly great or even really good. It needed another rewrite to flush out more entertainment. It runs 1 hour, 33 minute
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Cast
- David Allen BrooksJohn Hollins
- Rod SteigerDr. Phillip Lloyd
- Amanda PaysMelissa Leftridge
- Talia BalsamSharon Raymond
- Kim HunterAmanda Hollins
- Timothy GibbsHart Phillips
- Peter FrechetteBrad Baxter
- Julia MontgomeryCindy Russell
- Bunky JonesNell Valentine (as Bunki Z)
- Charles GrueberHarry
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- Stephen CarpenterDirector
- Jeffrey ObrowDirector
- Stephen CarpenterWriter
- Jeffrey ObrowWriter
- John PenneyWriter
- Stephen CarpenterDirector of Photography
- David NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Earl GhaffariEditor
- John PenneyEditor
- Jeffrey ObrowProducer
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