If you were a brilliant geneticist, working on a secret government genetic engineering project, and your fiancee dumped you because your sperm were not viable, what would you do to resolve your mid-life crisis? Dr. Gino Conti creates his own son by combining reptilian and human DNA, but discovers fatherhood an extraordinary challenge when his son's anger management issues include eating people.
Practical Effects
The lizard boy costume — rubber suit cinema at its finest.
Writing
Dialogue so absurd it loops back to genius territory.
Director
Paul Della Pelle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Paul Della Pelle also worked as a stunt coordinator, which explains the surprisingly ambitious action sequences for a micro-budget film.
This belongs to the proud tradition of 2010s direct-to-streaming creature features that flooded Netflix's 'horror' category before algorithms got sophisticated.
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