#Douglas McKeown

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The Deadly Spawn (1983) // Dir. Douglas McKeown

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THE DEADLY SPAWN Micro-budget monster movie cult classic!

‘Earth vs. the ultimate eating machine!’ The Deadly Spawn is a 1983 American sci-fi comedy horror film written and directed by Douglas McKeown from a story conceived with Ted A. Bohus and John Dods. The movie stars Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco and Richard Lee Porter. Plot: A crash-landed alien finds refuge in the basement of a house and grows to monstrous proportions, eating those…

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The Deadly Spawn

Summary: A bunch of flesh-eating aliens crash-land into Earth and immediately start feasting on the local population.

$8k cost apparent - bad acting and cheap FX offset by chaotic charm that can only come from DIY filmmaking.

Rating: 2.25/5

Photo credit: Gruesome Magazine

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The Deadly Spawn | Episode 362

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The Deadly Spawn | Episode 362

Jim reflects back on his first viewing of a low-budget Sci-Fi Classic from 1983 – “The Deadly Spawn,” starring Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter, Jean Tafler, Kathy Tighe, James Brewster and Elizabeth Marner-Brooks. Douglas McKeown’s directorial debut caught audiences by surprise 40 years ago leading to a solid cult following over the years. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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THE WATERMELON WOMAN:

Video store clerk

Makes a doc about an actress

A name forgotten

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[Image description: A digital painting based on the film The Deadly Spawn. It depicts a large spawn creature - which is a mix between a slug and an earthworm, with a mouth like a leech - looming over a three storey blue house. The house is sat in a field next to a rocky hill, which the spawn rises out of, more than double its size. Its bottom teeth blend into the hillside. There's an empty road near the hill, which is visually blocked by shadow. Near its end, there's a telephone pole, which is linked by many wires to a more prominent one by the house. All of the house's windows are lit up in warm light. The night sky is light, though stars can be seen. A few clouds litter the sky. The leaves of large trees frame both sides of the pieces. The piece is mostly yellow and green tones, with a few reds for the spawn. The other main colour is blue, which is used mainly for the sky and house.]

Inktober - Day 29 (Massive)

Film - The Deadly Spawn (Douglas McKeown, 1983)

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THE DEADLY SPAWN (1983) dir. Douglas McKeown

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The Deadly Spawn 

Dir. Douglas McKeown, 1983

Aka Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn or The Return of the Alien's Deadly Spawn

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movies you and eddie munson watch together 1/??

eddie's pick: the deadly spawn (1983) dir. douglas mckeown

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THE DEADLY SPAWN

USA

1983

Directed by Douglas McKeown

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the deadly spawn (1983, dir. douglas mckeown)

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This Friday-Sunday (October 7th-9th, 2021) at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, it’s their semi-annual SPLATTERFLIX weekend!

It’s exactly what you think it is: the goriest, scariest horror movies ever made, re-animated by Retro Film Series for screening over a three-day weekend. 

Featuring:

Lewis Teague’s Alligator (1980)

Ken Russell’s Altered States (1980)

Paul Morrissey’s Blood for Dracula: Uncut Version (1974)

Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs (1989)

Tony Maylam’s The Burning (1981)

George Romero’s The Crazies (1970)

Douglas McKeown’s The Deadly Spawn (1983)

Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1970)

Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein: Uncut Version (1973)

Kenny Ortega’s Hocus Pocus (1993)

Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Stephen Chiodo’s Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

James C. Wasson’s Night of the Demon (1980)

Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Ron Underwood’s Tremors (1990)

David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983)

Tickets are $10.00 each, or you can get a 10-pack for $80.  Check here for schedule.

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC http://www.carolinatheatre.org/

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The Deadly Spawn (1983) - IMDb

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The Deadly Spawn 1983 - James L. Brewster, John Dods, Douglas McKeown - Synapse Films

FOR SALE!!! FIND THIS ITEM AND MORE AT screaming-greek.com or check out the link in my bio... The Deadly Spawn - Special Edition Starring: James L. Brewster Directed: John Dods, Douglas McKeown Used DVD + Insert - 80min. Synapse Films - 20004 Read the full article

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Movie Review | The Deadly Spawn (McKeown, 1983)

As I noted in my review of The Strangeness, for anyone making a monster movie in the '80s, the influence of Alien was inescapable. That movie approached the sexual dimensions of the creature design from a completely different (and impressively unpleasant-looking) angle. The Deadly Spawn takes a completely different tack to the design. What if a kid watched Alien when they were way too young? What if they saw it with their fingers covering their eyes so that they didn't even get too good of a look? The alien had a lot of teeth, right? A whole mouthful of god knows how many? How many heads did it have? Are we sure it had just one? Why not two or three? What if they had just five minutes to draw what they thought the alien looked like? With a lot more time you'd likely end up with a lot more teeth and a lot more heads, but the result of those five minutes would likely look something like the monster in The Deadly Spawn, which has a finite number of teeth and heads but more than anybody would like to run into when venturing into their basement. There are also a lot of little monsters, which push up the number of teeth and heads even higher. I make this comparison not to suggest that the movie is lazy with its creature design, but that it feels filtered through a child's imagination. It's a great monster, all the more so because it seems the product of a specific perspective.

Of course, a great monster by itself wouldn't make a good movie, and I'm sure we've all seen examples of monsters saddled with movies not up to their standard. (What comes to mind for me is Tombs of the Blind Dead, which I found interminable whenever the camera wasn't pointed directly at the Blind Dead. Sadly, this composed a non-zero amount of runtime. Would not recommend, unless you really, really need your Blind Dead fix.) This thankfully is not such a case, as it extends the sensibilities that inspired the monster design to the movie around it. The horror is grounded in the realities of the characters' domestic existence, like when a character first encounters the monster in their dark, creaky basement. (I watched this the same weekend as The Strangeness, and while not as aggressive as that movie in this respect, I think this too makes tense use of limited light sources in this sequence.) The movie's funniest sequence involves a brunch meeting between some little old ladies which takes a gruesome turn, with the characters initially trying to pretend something isn't amiss and that the green sauce doesn't actually taste a little funky so as not to offend one of the hosts.

The movie is also surprisingly sturdy in the characterization department. The heroes here are refreshingly not the dumbassed horndog teens who populated the T&A-filled slasher movies of the era, but smart, methodical science students who attempt a logical approach to dealing with the situation. (One of them dissects one of the little monsters, which looks like a sausage casing filled with pasta.) The characters are defined as such so that when the movie metes out unexpected fates for them, it actually has an impact beyond the gruesome imagery. (This is not a movie where you can tell from the beginning who will make it to the end, even if the changing availability of the actors can be credited for its most shocking scene.) Most surprisingly is that the best character in the movie happens to be a kid. I've seen any number of terrible child actors and obnoxious children show up in horror movies (there was one in I Drink Your Blood, and a particularly egregious example in Trick or Treats, wherein you actively root for the mad slasher to take out the little bastard; and who could forget Bob from The House by the Cemetery?), so it's quite refreshing that the kid here is actually a pretty good actor and quite believable in the context of the movie. It also helps that as a monster kid, his perspective aligns with that of the movie and gives the events that transpire a certain catharsis. Which is a fancy way of saying that this kid kind of rules and so does this movie.