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The Suckling  (1990)
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Sewage Baby
The Suckling aka Sewage Baby
Tagline(s):...All He Wanted Was a Cuddle
 It'll suck your brains out!
 Flushed away at birth...
 He'll Always Be Mommy's Little Mutant
Nomination Year: 2025
SYNOPSIS: 

A young woman is pressured into an abortion by her boyfriend. She wants to back out, but is tricked by the scummy matron of the illegal abortion clinic into going through with it. The fetus gets flushed...right into a dripping stream of toxic waste! So of course it becomes a mutated monster that starts killing off the cast one by one.

Like all good Fred Olen Ray films, this movie claims to be a true story... Only two problems. One: This isn't a Fred Olen Ray film -- it was the brainchild of writer/director Francis Teri. And two: There's no such thing as a good Fred Olen Ray film.

Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Most Ludicrous Premise
Preborn Mutant Ninja Fetus
Big Mama (the abortionist) tricks the girl into drinking a drugged drink, which is having its effect. BM goes through with the nonconsensual abortion. They flush the fetus...but down in the sewers, toxic waste drips on it! "The Suckling" is born!
"Alas, Poor Yorick"
Axel Gets a Buzz
The guys are in the basement, looking for a way out, and Axel discovers the monster near the electrical box. He shoots it (ineffective), then lunges at it with a metal pipe. Effective...not in killing the monster, but in electrocuting himself and making his head explode. Smithee gold!
Stupidest-Looking Monster
Stupidest-Looking Fetus
Dad and Axel are stalking the fetus-monster. There are some tense moments. Axel's a little jumpy with the gun, but then up pops the monster to kill Vanessa!

According to IMDb, this monster suit cost $10K. Hope they kept the receipt.

Inane Dialogue
"I Mean To Get out of Here Alive"
Nope! The INSTANT he utters those fateful words, the monster kills him through the wall! Hilarious!
"WHAT?!"
Reverse Abortion!
The monster kills Daddy (he was kind of a scumbag anyhow), then spies Mom cowering on the floor. I guess it decides it liked it better "inside," because it runs at her and (as far as I can tell) "de-ages" until it re-inserts itself in her womb. WHAT?!
Worst Picture
The Ultimate Swirly
Two of the hookers hear weird noises coming from the toilet. They have no idea. Bertha gets strangled and decapitated! Nice!
Cutting the Cord
They think the thing might be hiding in drains. They're right...in the kitchen, the monster wraps its umbilical cord around the boyfriend. But they manage to cut it in time... Although the stop-motion claymation is more horrific than any monster.
True Story, Bro [Still]
Scrolling text before the credits claims this was all true... It happened on April 1st, 1973 in Brooklyn.

"April Fool's Day" aside, who wrote this screenplay? Fred Olen Ray? (He didn't; it was Francis Teri.)

Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Francis Teri His only director's credit. Thank goodness. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Lisa Patruno Girl Jennifer in Troma's War and Sandy in Galactic Gigolo
Tim Martin Crouse Bill St. Cassian in Lethal Justice; Brad Webb in The Orchard; Tony McCabe in Redemption
Janet Sovey Big Mama Cassandra in The Orchard and Catherine in Redemption
Frank Rivera Axel AKA "Frank Reeves," he was actually on Broadway and off-Broadway and now he's really, really off Broadway. Played Ken Robinson in Sasquatch Mountain
Gerald Preger Sherman Just this. Ugh. 
Marie Michaels Candy Mrs. Carbone in Goodfellas; Louise McCormick in Flesh-Eating Mothers
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