the kindred open to shot of a porsche race along a highway and it catch up with an old pick up truck and get hold up . a it speed past the pick up the driver ( benjamin j. perry a ben perry ) shout obscenity and honk his horn . distract he doesn not notice an obstruction ahead and crash his porsche . he be quickly free from the wreckage and be take to hospital . on the way the paramedic ( randy harrington ) try to save him suggest that he probably would not make it . then the ambulance be attack and force off the road by a van . the driver of the van and jackson ( jim boeke a james f. boeke ) beat the paramedic up and steal the patient . the ambulance driver and harry ( charles grueber ) make no attempt to stop him . once the injured man have be place into the van jackson turn his attention to harry whom seem to know each other . harry ask jackson not to hit him because he break his jaw last time . jackson punch harry to the floor and throw a bundle of money at him . the film then make it perfectly clear we be in san fransisco by show a shot of the golden gate bridge . sharon raymond be wake up by a phone call for her boyfriend dr. john hollins ( david allen brook ) to inform him that his mother and amanda ( kim hunter ) who have recently have a heart attack have regain consciousness . hollins work for a company call the geneticell corporation and be delight at the news and head off to see her . once there she ask him to go back to his old childhood house in a small town call shelter cove and destroy all of her note and experiment and especially the anthony journal which hollins have never hear of and she also claim that he have a brother name anthony . back at geneticell and hollins talk with a dr. phillip lloyd ( rod steiger ) about his mother a they have both work together before they have a fall out with each other and and question him about her research and if he know of anyone call anthony . he claim he know nothing . when amanda die after a visit from the sinister dr. lloyd and hollins decides to carry out his mother request and try to find out who anthony be . while pay his final respect at the funeral a woman name melissa leftridge ( amanda pay ) introduce herself to hollins and say she be a big admirer of his mother work and research after she help her . because melissa seem to know so much about his mother work he invite her to the house a she may possibly be able to help find some answer to various question he have . hollins and sharon and melissa and three lab assistant and brad baxter ( peter frechette ) and hart phillips ( timothy gibbs ) and cindy russell ( julia montgomery ) plus a girl with a watermelon ( . ) name nell valentine ( bunki z and great name what be her parent think . ) . they get down to business straight away but find little of any interest . for some reason no one at this point think to look in the basement and which be just as well a there something down there and something large and slimy and have lot of tentacle . first it kill duke and the dog . then it move on to large prey . when hart be attack by something in a barn hollins decide he must destroy all trace of his mother work and whatever anthony be . jointly co write and direct by stepehn carpenter and jeffery obrow and carpenter also act a cinematographer and obrow a producer . this be a pretty poor film in my opinion . the script be credit to five ( . ) writer and carpenter and obrow and earl ghaffari and john penny and joseph stefano and with five people work on it i would like to think they could come up with something a little bit well and more coherent than this . nothing be explain that well and why do amanda create these monstrous sea creature or human hybrid . what be dr. lloyd interest and his motif . why do he steal body from the back of ambulance . why do he have a basement full of mutant . why do none of these so call genetic scientist think to check the basement out . could melissa act more suspiciously even if she try . why be none of the character give any background . why do people keep mention a substance find in sea creature call hemocynine when 99 . 9 % of the audience isn not go to have clue what their on about . there be also a serious lack of blood and gore and only one person die on screen and just one . and all the scientist survive in a vomit inducingly mushy happy end . this be a horror film guy and all we want to see be the slimy monster kill and eat people in various gory way . the one on screen death be actually quite cool and someone have slimy tentacle insert under their skin and in their ear and up their nose in the film only decent horror sequence . to try and up the gore quotent there be a scene where dr. lloyd be experiment on a skin animal but it only last for a few second and and in the context of the rest of the film doesn not mean a thing . melissa also turn into a fish and do not ask . there no nudity either and which isn not a surprise . the film look professional enough with decent production value but be just so dull and plod along at a snails pace and we do not even get to see the giant monster in the basement until 15 odd minute before the end which be far too little far too late and when it do make an appearance the effect be ok and that make it even more of a shame that it wasn not use more . overall i be very disappointed and i be expect a lot well . a horror film with only one on screen death and only three in total and what the world come too .