The Unseen

[AndyC]

Anybody seen this movie? I somewhat remember seeing it on TV years ago, and not knowing whether I thought it was creepy or funny as hell.

As I recall, three stranded women stay with a weird middle-aged brother and sister, and are picked off by an unseen monster that turns out to be the result of the couple's past incest, which they keep in the basement. The scene where I laughed out loud was when the heroine is trapped in the basement, being terrorized by the monster, who looks like a cross between Quasimodo and Baby Huey. At one point, he shoves a teddy bear down the front of his diaper and runs around the room.

[Chadzilla]

Stephen 'Flounder' Furst played the retarded child.  What was interesting was that the true monster wasn't in the basement, it was actually the crazy old coot who fathered the thing that was the real monster.  Although the directing credit goes to one Peter Hoeg (or something similar) the real director was in fact Danny Steinmann (who would go on to direct the worthless Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning).  He disowns this movie, for some reason.  I think it's pretty solidly made.

[AndyC]

That's right. It's coming back to me. He raped the sister, then killed his father when the old man was going to "make sure it never happens again." He's a total psychopath, and in the end, he whacks Baby Huey in the head with a board with a nail in it, pretty much right after we start feeling sympathy.

I kind of think this was set in the Los Alamos area, as if to suggest some mutation on top of the inbreeding, but that's not really mentioned.

[Steven Millan]

            Yeah,guys,for it's another early 80s genre outing that has all but unfortunately disappeared,and needs to get a much-deserved DVD release as soon as possible.

[Chadzilla]

Hopefully Blue Underground or Anchor Bay will do it.  The movie itself was shot in a pastoral Southern California community noted for its Dutch style dress and building design (windmills, etc.), don't remember the name.  I'll see if I can dig it out.

Whatever happened to Furst?