a laboratory experiment go terribly wrong leave a scientist and professor adam and radioactively infect with a horrible mutation effect his whole body . now a grotesque cannibal lurk the underground sewer tunnel of the town of newton and the power that be be plan to drop nerve bomb if the monster isn not find and kill in time and so that the viral contagion adam be currently carry will be contain . if this drastic decision be to be halt and captain kirk ( david warbeck ) and adams lab assistant jane blake ( janet agren ) and and newton police sergeant obrien ( josé lifante ) will have to race against time to find the mutated fiend and save thousand of innocent life . during this chase to find it and the monster be scour street target citizen and feast on flesh and retreat to the sewer periodically to escape from harm . rampage through a theater and it find a female a others flee and tear away at her face right before kirk be able to catch him . the monster break into the locked door of a catholic church and invade a sacristy a a priest help his choir boys find escape and murder him a the padre defend his kid . kirk bos and milton ( franco ressel ) unload two shot gun blast into the beast before it rip away at his leg . even kirk be able to unload an entire gun of bullet into the thing without down the monster . this monster have quite a threshold and a kirk and obrien flood the sewer with gas hop to corner it after seal off escape route . that monster be damn elusive and that for sure and quite motivate to keep on go and no matter the resistance it face along the way . the version i watch and on a 50 pack of mill creek film and be incredibly murky and seem to be cut . the movie absent of gore and the monster itself be wisely hide in darkness and with only mutate ( . latex ) flesh make visible a light briefly flash on it while in pursuit of new victim to eat . i do not think the monster be very convincing when the film finally unveil it at the end . i would not lie and this be a pain to sit through while positively boring and with an absence of thrill . if the plot be even remotely original or effective and i might have enjoy it more . on paper and this hybrid of suspense element ( monster on the loose eating folk while threat of spread virus while possible nuking of town ) should be a winner and but under the direction of tonino ricci and it plod along at a languid pace cover familiar ground formerly trample on by more capable filmmaker . in the version i watch and the scene of violence disappear from the screen a the monster often engulf the entire frame . even a kirk and obrien survey the crime scene carnage leave in the monster wake and ricci fails to give the viewer the gory good . just a sheer disappointment that and if handle by someone else and might have be well . an italian production with the story set in england ( why not rome . ) .