# La Chose (1983)

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**Original title**: *The Deadly Spawn*
**Runtime**: 81 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Douglas McKeown
**Written by**: Douglas McKeown, Ted A. Bohus, John Dods
**Starring**: Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter, Jean Tafler, Karen Tighe, James Brewster

> *They came to Earth to feed on human flesh!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Moonlit pine needles. A hissing mass oozes from a cracked meteorite, splitting open in the damp soil.  
Cassette tape abandoned near a gutted dog, a flashlight sweeps the shed where something wet shifts on the ceiling.  
This is what John Carpenter would toss off before breakfast, if he lived on ramen and gore.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, unhinged

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