Synopsis
The movie The Suckling (1990) is a low-budget horror film directed by Francis Teri and starring Bernadette Swanson, Rufus Norris, and Lisa Harrow. It revolves around a mutated monster fetus wreaking havoc at a brothel.
The movie The Suckling (1990) opens at Big Mama’s brothel where a girl named Lovey gives birth to a deformed mutant baby conceived by a radioactive client. After it brutally kills Lovey and a policeman, Big Mama and the brothel workers lock the monstrous baby in the basement. However, it quickly escapes and goes on a killing rampage.
The vicious creature decapitates girls and mutilates their bodies as it prowls the brothel. Big Mama calls in a para-psychologist and a steel-fisted mercenary named Splat to try destroying the mutant. After it kills most of the brothel’s residents, Splat crushes the surviving Suckling in a meat press.
Cast
- Bernadette Swanson as Lovey Wilder
- Rufus Norris as Baby Wilder
- Lisa Harrow as Big Mama
- Stephen Bill as Splat
- Karen Lynn as Marlene
Trivia
- Filmed in Missouri on a budget under $35,000.
- Props included a dead pig fetus for the title creature.
- Director Francis Teri was a protege of Herschell Gordon Lewis.
- Actress Lisa Harrow was British.
Anonymous on October 29, 2023
