The Kindred

Dr. Amanda Hollins spent her entire career experimenting with genetic manipulation, hoping to expand scientific knowledge for the benefit of the human race. But on her deathbed, realizing the dangerous ramifications of her unfinished work, the woman implores her son John (also a geneticist) to destroy all of her research notes and burn every trace of the “Anthony journals”. As the staff ushers the confused young man from his fading mother’s hospital room, she blurts out one final stunning revelation: Anthony is his brother – one he never knew existed!

Realizing how much he’s been in the dark about the exact nature of his mother’s work, John decides to investigate, and so he heads to her secluded old house with a small coterie of doctors, friends, and a lovely young woman he just happened to meet at his mother’s funeral, and who claims to be a huge admirer of the deceased scientist. Lying in wait is that mysterious brother, but it’s hardly a warm family reunion, given that “Anthony” turns out to be a tentacled monster with a predilection for killing.

Complicating matters, one of Amanda’s former colleagues – corrupt mad scientist Phillip Lloyd – will stop at nothing to get his hands on the creature, and he wants it alive!