5 Great Films You Probably Haven't Seen

1. The Kindred (1987)

Genre: Horror Apart from being a hidden gem, The Kindred is especially relevant today (more so than when it was made 25 years ago) because of the advances in medical science such as cloning. What may have seemed like far-fetched science fiction back then is quite conceivable now and unsettling as a result. On her deathbed, a genetic scientist tells her son - also a scientist - that he must go to her house and destroy all her secret research. She doesn't say any more, just that he must destroy everything. The son, John, goes to her house and, reading through journals, believes she was at the cutting edge of a medical breakthrough and so gathers together a rag tag bunch of students to continue her work. Curiously, he also finds numerous reference to "Anthony" as well as audio tape of his mother calming Anthony by singing the same nursery rhyme she used to soothe him with. Yet John was an only child and he doesn't remember anyone called Anthony ever being at the house. Things take a further twist when he is approached at his mother's funeral by a strange and beautiful woman who claimed to be working with his mother on the secret experiment and so he invites her to the house too - much to the annoyance of his loyal-but-plain girlfriend. Slowly but surely, strange things start to happen, his students begin to die in horrible fashion (including a wonderfully gross scene where a tentacle can be seen moving under the skin of a woman€˜s face and up the bridge of her nose), the beautiful woman is not all she appears to be, and an old colleague of John's mother is unusually interested in discovering what John's mother kept hidden for so long. Inventive & gory, entertaining & thought provoking, with a nod to Lovecraft and a wink to Frankenstein, The Kindred is the epitome of the boon years of home video: a blast of a film, featuring mainly unknowns and convincing special effects The Kindred has yet to be released on DVD.
 
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