My first experience with The Deadly Spawn (aka Return Of The Aliens: The Deadly Spawn) was on a horror compilation tape called Terror On Tape, which featured a collection of gory scenes from films like Two Thousand Maniacs, City Of The Walking Dead, Scalps, Blood Feast and the like. While it looked like fun, the film never really approached my radar screen even as a gore-obsessed teenager. Which is a shame, since the film is a worthwhile exercise in low budget shock film making. It owes it’s debt to the sci-fi films of the 50s (particularly The Blob and Invaders
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