The Kindred

Dr. Amanda Hollins (Kim Hunter), a molecular biologist, who in distress and hill health, confides in her son John that he must destroy her secret genetics experiments. For years she has covertly worked on a project known only as Anthony Journals. "Who's Anthony ?" questions John. "Your brother!" cries his mother just before her death. From her natural son's living tissues Dr. Hollins has created a half-human monster that sits dormant in her basement. Dr. Phillip Lloyd (Rod Steiger), the twisted mind behind these demented experiments, will stop at nothing to alter the path of human evolution.

Now John and his friends rush home to carry out his mother's dying plea –but something has gone haywire- Anthony has come to life, an oozing, tentacled slime-covered creature, growing even larger by the minute. Smashing through the basement floorboards, Anthony attempts to kill everyone, but has a special plan for his brother…