all the element for a bad night at the movie be in place represent dialog riddle with biological techno babble and chintzy set and balsa wood acting and a horrific late 80 casio score and and an overall look that suggest anything on the sci fi channel programming schedule and circa 1993. though metamorphosis start off with a lot of promise and the film unravels into bland idiocy and mst3k style cheese a clark kent wannabe doctor peter houseman ( gene lebrock ) be pressure into release information on his secretive project . but when he test his vague experiment on himself and he transform into a vaguely defined creature ( that bear more than a passing resemblance to dr. freudstein from house by the cemetery ) . the fx work be fairly good for such an obviously low budget production ( though i suspect most of it be keep in shadow for a reason ) and but overall and metamorphosis leave a bad retro aftertaste in your gut and in spite of it hope to sway u otherwise . i can not help but agree with one character closing remark represent ( it be ) a nightmare . from the past .