BEING, THE 
(1984)

(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide)


Dorothy Malone has a five-year-old son who falls into the local nuclear-waste dump, turns into a glopola monster, and eats half of Idaho. Martin Landau is the sleazy scientist who goes on TV to explain how there's just a little nuclear waste in the town's water supply, so don't worry. But unfortunately, a giant bloody animal hand has already come through a car roof and ripped a teen's head off. Then there are two kids pawing each other at the drive-in, when a giant green brain moseys over by the car to watch, and then blood starts oozing out of the car radio and the glove compartment and the air conditioner, and then the giant brain starts going around the drive-in jerking turkeys out their windows and digesting them. The investigating cop sits in green slime glopola, then later finds some weird Jello in his bed and has to run in front of a train to escape. Then a hand comes up through the stomach of this cop and he pretty much gets his intestines ripped out while he watches. The slime glopola monster now treats the town as his own personal salad bar, going after three boys who decided to burn down the massage parlor. He looks like a Cyclops Hamburger Helper with teeth, with an octopus tongue that can roll out of his head like a lasso and pretty much rip the bejabbers out of anything. One guy gets his hand scissored into a piece of lunchmeat, anther one gets yanked through a plate glass window, and then the slime glopola monster decides to go our to Ruth Buzzi's house and do some tongue exercises on her neck. Finally, the creature starts drop-kicking Martin Landau around a warehouse until he gets so mad about being Dorothy Malone's son that he decides to slime everybody to death--right before the cop figures out that the creature IS indestructible, except when you shine a flashlight in his eye. Twelve dead bodies. Five breasts. One and one-half gallons blood. Two motor vehicle chases, with one crash-and-burn. Heads roll. Directed by Jackie Kong, of NIGHT PATROL fame. 

 

 

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