Kitty Moffat

Seventeen years after a woman is attacked by a barely glimpsed creature in a Mississipp swamp, her teenage son's beastly nature surfaces and he begins a reign of terror. Based loosely upon a novel by horror-cult novelist Edward Levy.

Soon after newlywed Caroline MacCleary (Bibi Besch) gets raped just outside Nioba, Miss., by a hairy, manlike creature, she gives birth to a baby boy (Paul Clemens). But her son, whom she names Michael, begins to suffer from a mysterious malady when he turns 17. Looking for answers, the MacClearys return to Nioba, where they find the name of Caroline's attacker -- and a community desperately attempting to conceal a dark secret.

Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. "The Beast Within" pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various cultures.

Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: from time immemorial, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. "The Beast Within" pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various cultures.