Idaho. "The Gem State." Major exports: Potatoes, lumber, and TERROR! The radioactive waste that is being dumped into the town's water supply has taken form as The Being, a mutant monster with a taste for blood that is killing off the locals. Detective Mortimer Lutz is the town's last defense against the evil menace, but local politics prevent him from contacting the National Guard. Why? Potatoes. Mayor Lane won't let anything stand in the way of Pottsville's lucrative potato business... Not radiation, not untimely death... Nothing! Jackie Kong's feature film debut is a bloody mess that only gets by thanks to its absurd plot and gallons of gore. Jose Ferrer and Martin Landau are wasted on this pathetic B-movie, but the poor writing in the script allows for several unintentional moments of hilarity from each of them. Landau's role as the environmental chemist is to prove that dumping toxic waste into the town's drinking water will have no adverse effects. Really? Where do you even start dissecting that? In all of Idaho, there is no place else to dump toxic waste but in the water supply? Who does Mayor Lane think is going to pick the potatoes, the mutants? Where does Idaho even get toxic waste to begin with? Thankfully, The Being comes along and rips off a few heads, tears out people's hearts, and slimes everything in sight. As far as terrible B-movies go, THE BEING rates at the top of the charts, but it is enjoyably bad from start to finish.
Rating: 5/10.
Entertainment: 7/10.
Gore: 7/10.
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