Scientist David Allen Brooks is asked by his mother (who's sick and on her death bed) to go and destroy her experiments, particularly one involving "Anthony", and when he goes to her remote house with a group of colleges (and bitchy Amanda Pays who he invited on a whim when she professed her love for his mother's work at her funeral) they end-up being attacked by a genetically created slimy monster ("Anthony" of course) while fellow scientist Rod Steiger is up to no good.

It's a little bit slow to get going and is a generally watchable monster flick for the first hour but soon it disintergrates into a chaotic and sloppy mess in the final third with lots of rubbery effects (like when a baby monster pops out of a jar on Pays), an unintentionally amusing "ambulance hijack" and a finale that slings all sorts of slime, tentacles and monster attacks but is still weak (with the worst moment being when Pays turns into a fish lady).

There's a few mildly memorable moments (like when the monster hitches a ride inside a watermelon) but generally it's quite skippable and surprisingly enough took five writers (one of which is Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano!).

Directed By: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow.
Written By: Stephen Carpenter, Earl Ghaffari, Jeffrey Obrow, John Penney, Joseph Stefano.

Starring: David Allen Brooks, Amanda Pays, Talia Balsam, Timothy Gibbs.