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Embryo is a 1976 science fiction horror film directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Rock Hudson alongside Barbara Carrera, with a cameo appearance by Roddy McDowall. It deals with the mental and physical consequences of growing a human embryo in an artificial uterus.
Dr. Paul Holliston (Hudson) is a geneticist who has been living alone in his rambling clinic, which he operates out of his home, after losing his wife in a car crash. This leads to his feeling constant pangs of guilt from his sister-in-law Martha Douglas (Diane Ladd), who has become his assistant.
One night, Holliston runs over a pregnant doberman dog. The dog is fatally injured, but Holliston manages to save one of her unborn puppies by gestating it in an artificial uterus. Because the device still requires nutrients to be supplied by the mother, he must drastically shorten the gestation period: to this end, he uses an experimental growth hormone made from human placental lactogen, which speeds up the embryo's growth.
Actors: Antero Alli (editor), Antero Alli (producer), Antero Alli (director), Antero Alli (writer), Antero Alli (actor), Sylvi Alli (producer), Sylvi Alli (actress), Sylvi Alli (composer), Lee Vogt (actor), Rainer Maria Rilke (writer), Chris Odell (editor), Jodie Evans (producer), Nick Walker (actor), Felecia Faulkner (actress), Junichi Kakutani (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Tethered to the netherworld of ghosts, muses, and dreams, a poet transforms his lament over the tragic death and loss of his friend and fellow artist into an epic work of literature. In 1908 Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem For a Friend" over two dream-filled nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later an experimental theatre group in Berkeley California prepares to stage his "Requiem" as an avante garde performance ritual. Time shifts to and fro as impressions of the contemporary era begin haunting Rilke's night dreams and consequently, inspiring the creative processes of writing his tribute to artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who unexpectedly died eighteen days after birthing her first child. Part bio-pic and narrative fiction, "The Greater Circulation" is a cinematic treatment of Rilke's powerful prose addressing the central drama of all women who feel torn between sacrificing their lives to their Art or to Motherhood.
Keywords: dead-mother, literary-adaptation, poetry, rilke, theatre-lifeActors: Philippe Chabot (producer), Philippe Chabot (actor), Philippe Chabot (actor), Julie-Anne Côté (actress), Julie-Anne Côté (actress), Rémy M. Larochelle (editor), Rémy M. Larochelle (director), Rémy M. Larochelle (writer), Gabriel Saubat (producer), Stéphane Bilodeau (actor), Mélissa Hébert (writer), Remy M. Larochelle (writer),
Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Horror,Based on a story by Jack W. Thomas. It was nominated for a Golden Scroll Award by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film.
"Embryo" is a Science Fiction and Horror film directed by Ralph Nelson. The movie is about a scientist (Rock Hudson), who experiments on a fetus, accelerating its growth within weeks into a beautiful young woman (Barbara Carrera). The woman becomes his protégé—the lessons culminating one night in sex. But when she becomes pregnant, the woman begins to age rapidly. From there things go horribly wrong. --- Directed by Ralph Nelson, produced by Anita Doohan and Arnold H. Orgolini, written by Anita Doohan and Jack W. Thomas, starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Roddy McDowall, Anne Schedeen, John Elerick, Vincent Baggetta, Jack Colvin, Joyce Brothers, Dick Winslow, Ken Washington, Lina Raymond and Sherri Zak. --- Source: "Embryo (1976 film)" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. ...
A pregnant mother is involved in a horrific car accident. She survives long enough to be taken to hospital where the still undeveloped fetus is retrieved and contained within an artificial womb. The womb instigates a rapid growth rate which causes the child to grow into adulthood within a matter of weeks. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies...
Cobb Films brings you a creepy tale. Rock Hudson stars as a geneticist who reanimates a dog and a human. Things get ugly fast as both creatures show a savage side.
A scientist (Rock Hudson) takes a few days off to grow a woman (Barbara Carrera) in his basement!
A scientist doing experiments http://morethanhellpicture.blogspot.com/0074475 on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
Creepy Teaser for the equally creepy sci-fi horror "Embryo" starring Rock Hudson and the lovely Barbara Carrera.
Trailer for the 1976 film EMBRYO, starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, and Roddy McDowell. (Synopsis: A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. However, the "adult" fetus turns into a homicidal psycho and looks for a new formula to prevent her from aging further.) Taken from my the dashboard of my car during the screening at the Midway Drive-in, Sterling, IL during Flashback Weekend, September 2010.
Nothing has come of these
Enhancing hours
Of talking and talking
Without having said a thing
So I’ll be the one to masterfully
Break the ice again
It seems we’re getting closer
To falling in
We’re drowning with every word said
Can either of us
Distinguish fear from yearning
How clever we are to speak in a place such as this
Speaking of the end
Speaking on our bed
Do these sheets conceal you
Go ahead
And live your dreams
In your embryo sleep
Just gravitate towards me
Shut your mouth
Don’t you speak out loud