Fear Flashbacks! – THE BEAST WITHIN warned ya!

I guess maybe the marketing blitz for THE BEAST WITHIN (1982) worked a little too well.

You gotta admit that the “this-is-really-nasty-shit-and-don’t-tell-us-we-didn’t-warn-you!” shtick was a bold move by MGM/UA. People are suckers for reverse psychology, so I’m surprised the film fizzled at the box office after just a few weeks and barely recouped its $5 million budget. Fast forward a few decades and I’m convinced this kind of approach would have worked better in the torture porn era of horror (think HOSTEL, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE, etc.) from the early part of the 21st century.

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