Embryo

I can't get a bead on Ralph Nelson - what an odd career. This is a interesting throwback to '30s Universal horror. Nice sense of dread and a fantastic opening.

A great premise that started off well but then kind of f=deflated to a whimper by the end. Rock Hudson & Barbara Carrera did well with what they were given but the real star of the movie for me was the amazingly talented Doberman.

I found myself engrossed and surprised by intelligent dialog and ideas, but unable to see past the stupid way it was shot.

Sick, but in a good way. Not a classic, but it's fun to see an all-star cast in such a depraved film

Fred Koenekamp's slick inky photography is the one element in the correct key for this Thirties-style sci-fi story. On the way to an appallingly messy ending, the movie shows not the slightest interest in its own premise. Rather than hypothesize on the intellectual, emotional, and moral growth of a test-tube Galatea, the movie falls back on experimental mishaps to account for her superhuman learning capacity, her drug dependency, and her homicidal urges.

An unusual sci-fi premise does not get the inspired treatment it merits. Carrera is scary as the experiment gone awry.