Mill Creek Reviews: Embryo (1976)

SEE BELOW the entire movie is available as a video response. Some things I didn't mention about this most excellent mid-70s medical techshock flick: It's one of the first in a 70s trend in hospital horror movies, leading to coma, the manitou, the lazarus syndrome (a mill creek title!), and a bunch of others. i completely wrote hollister's son and daughter in law out of the review. the son is a prop. daughter-in-law is sorta amusingly annoying. note the it's alive, therefore it's beautiful line. it seems like rock hudson loses faith in this project. if i had to guess it would be because of roddy mcdowell, whose performance is inexplicable. sorry for all the sleazy, oily talk about barbara carrera but she is just ... rowr. dishy. i hope the fact that she's rowr in 1976 will absolve me with my girl. ***/**** ___ My movie reviews on this page will be devoted exclusively to the films featured in the Mill Creek Entertainment series of bargain DVD collections, and specifically those selections that are in the public domain. Mill Creek movies tend to be low-budget, dated, obscure, outrageous, ponderous, exploitative, and bizarre. Some are unique and brilliant. Many are simply abysmal. For this reason, my four-star rating system is different from, and more lenient than, most. You can count on a one-star movie in my rating system to be absolute slop but just because I give a movie four stars, that doesnt make it Kramer vs. Kramer. It simply means that the movie is a truly valuable ...