Raped and Impregnated by a Monster Back in the 80's! The Beast Within/Breeders!

The Beast Within (1982)/Breeders (1986)




There are a number of films from the 80’s involving women being raped and and sometimes impregnated by inhuman creatures such as Inseminoid and Humanoids from The Deep. They did a whole bunch of those. Galaxy of Terror had a woman being raped by a giant maggot, and the woman sort of looks like she likes it in that one. Inseminoid is pretty rough. I think I turned it off.

The Beast Within is one of those films but is different in so far as it is actually a good film. A woman down south is an a car accident and then is raped by an inhuman monster of some sort. 17 years later, their son is dying of an unknown illness. They go back to the town where the raped took place, but it quickly becomes clear that the townspeople are trying to cover something up concerning the death of a townsperson named Lionel Curwen, the town undertaker.
Of course, the son starts turning into a monster and killing people. There is a whole bunch of curious references to the insects cicadas. People talk about the films of Cronenberg or the film Society as being body horror, The Beast Within is in a lot of ways a very extreme example of body horror. The inhuman monster that raped the kids mom in the beginning- so messed up- controlling his mind from within. There’s this whole bit where the kid falls in love with a local girl and then they do a romantic bit in the swamp and the dog gets a decomposing hand out of the dirt. Turns out in the end, spoiler alert- the inhuman monster that raped the kid’s mother was held in the basement and fed dead bodies. The idea of the film is that it is the kind of cycle of the infant cicada in terms of larval stages and emerging from shed skin. It is truly distressing and there is of course a final transformation scene like none other, one of the most disgusting I’ve seen in a film. The film is worth watching for that whole bit when the boy turns into the monster. The Beast Within is the better- or I would say the classier end of this subgenre. The rape and impregnation of females by the inhuman creature is one plot element and thematic aspect of a generally grim and brutal film. The Beast Within is relatively well plotted and well acted, for example.
Far less tactful is the film Breeders also from 1986. The film Breeders is another raped by inhuman monsters film, though very different in tone. The Beast Within doesn’t have much nudity in it, Breeders has a whole lot of gratuitous nudity and women changing scenes. The film Breeders is much more so some guy's sick jerk off fantasy. Most of the central women in this film are virgins that live in the East Village and look like American Apparel ads. There’s even one seen where one of the virgins takes off all her clothes, does some cocaine and starts dancing around. They are raped by bug-eyed aliens disguise themselves as humans to rape virgins to create a progeny that will invade the Earth. After the virgins have been raped they turn into pro-alien zombie-like creatures. They’re all swimming around and bathing in a substance that looks like semen towards the end. It is a ludicrous film. Trick ending- the woman working at the rape victim hospital is a virgin and the detective on the case turns into a bug-eyed alien. This film is also low budget and poorly acted beyond belief. I did not, however, turn it off, which puts it above many of these films. I did laugh a lot at Breeders, the actresses they used were cute.