The Being

Nov 18, 1983

1h 21m

★ 4.8

The ultimate terror has taken form...

Overview

Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Bill Osco Productions

The Being Trailers

Cast

Garson Jones

Martin Landau

Laurie

Marianne Gordon

Detective Mortimer Lutz

Bill Osco

Mayor Gordon Lane

José Ferrer

Marge Smith

Dorothy Malone

Virginia Lane

Ruth Buzzi

Arn

Murray Langston

Willis

Kinky Friedman

John

Johnny Dark

Officer Dudley

Kent Perkins

Suzie

Roxanne Cybelle

Monster

Jerry Maren

The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.

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5.1

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5.8

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5.0

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5.3

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4.2

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4.3

The Dorm

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4.1

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4.5

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4.5

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5.6

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6.9

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6.3

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5.5

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5.0

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4.6

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