Review of The Suckling (1990) by Chris P — 06 Dec 2008

THE SUCKLING IS BRILLIANT! A young couple go to a whorehouse that doubles as an illegal abortion clinic. The young lady, who is very hesitant, gets drugged and her baby is removed and flushed down the toilet.

What follows next is one of the sleaziest and funniest moments as the dead fetus falls through the sewers and stops right under an area where a random barrel of toxic waste is leaking through the drainage onto the baby, causing a hilarious transformation that may just rival the infamous one in An American Werewolf in London.

Soon, a lady gets her head taken off and everyone is trying to leave but the baby has covered all of the exits with what I can only assume is afterbirth, or placenta hardened to the point where everyone is trapped inside with a dead fetus mutant that becomes increasingly larger and deadlier by the minute.

This film was classic! An utter masterpiece in sleaze and bad filmmaking, which still managed to keep me pretty entertained. The monster and prosthetic effects weren't even that bad, though I would have never guessed this film was from 1990 (it looks more like 1980!).

My only concerns lie within the deaths where there were an usually large amount due to guns, rather than creature violence. Also, the baby "detransformation" was probably the weakest effects of the whole movie, though they did manage to make me laugh my ass off.

Honestly, I'm mad at myself for not having watched this film earlier in life. Truly a cult classic!