Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Cristi_Ciopron By its essential blandness, 'Embryo' has a soap opera style and take, and it evoked me, besides a French romance read when I was a kid, 'Algernon', a similarly clumsy, though far less despicable, story; Hudson looked a bit skeptical, and there's a general feeling that what we see are people reading their lines, which brings us back to the aforementioned blandness, the critical lack of gusto and zest. Yet, the soap opera feel is sometimes soothing, the stupid tale, the unpopulated sets, the creepy colors, the sheer indifference to any verisimilitude and plausibility, the uninvolved and perhaps embarrassed actors, yet many have gone through such (R. Burton, G. Peck, etc.), the 1st moment of suspense comes after 50 minutes, then Barbara Carrera takes over the movie, she's interesting to watch even dressed, the others embody '70s sloth and triteness. Her character is a heartless genius, scared by rapid aging, and turned into a cereal killer.'Algernon' was quite badly written, for a genre novel; and 'Embryo' is very badly written for a dire C movie, and all looks somewhat intentionally bland, the soap opera feel was meant.Hudson plays a creepy, recluse embryologist who has a son, a pregnant daughter-in-law, a jealous sister-in-law, and a research assistant.The movie ends with a car chase, and Rock Hudson's unfunny grimace.

gpeltz I found the movie an interesting update of the Frankenstein story; The monster, an innocent, returns to kill his creators family. How sad. Every action by the players have logical and even good intentions, but they had disastrous results. One wishes that Victoria would have told the doctor of her condition, and both could have worked out a solution. Instead she choose to fight for her survival alone.Although she read the Bible, she had no moral background, Her body was adult (was it ever!) but her experience was child-like at best. Perhaps it was the experimental hormone that created the killer nature; after all, even the dog displayed homicidal tendencies as a result of the his injections.All in all very tragic on a large scale. I recall another Rock Hudson film, that dealt with a thriller/sci-Fi theme ten years earlier, "Seconds"(1966) by John Frankenheimer. Spoiler alert;Rock Hudson does not end up very well in that one either.This movie was better then I was expecting. I thought it well acted, and conceived. The fashions, computers and telephones fix it into it's time zone: Nineteen seventy six. This seems to be an issue with some viewers, not I. Embryo does not need CGI, the effects were adequate. The Dog fetus, being born was well done, as were most of the other effects.

JoeB131 With a lot of the current controversy about cloning and embryonic stem cell research, this movie is an interesting flashback to when this concept was first mined for Science Fiction stories.Rock Hudson plays a doctor who hits a dog, and then hits on the concept that the fetuses of the dog could be saved by growing them in a tank using some special drugs. The result is a dog that is highly intelligent but (unbeknownst to him) psychotic. (There is a great scene where the dog, a DOberman called "Number One", kills a yappy dog and then hides the body.Hudson decides to skip the usual years of animal research and peer review, and apply the process to a human embryo. The result is a child that grows out of control into the very hot Barbara Carerra. Even though she has the ability to learn simply from reading a book, she lacks any kind of moral underpinnings. Like Frankenstein's monster,Carerra's Victoria proceeds to reek havoc into the life of her creator, killing anyone who stands in her way.Hudson, who was past his prime as an actor, turns in a good performance here. Roddy McDowell has a cameo as an arrogant chess master who is bested by the novice Victoria.Some of the things in the movie scream "Seventies", like computers as big as a room with tape drives, polyester leisure suits and a character with a huge afro haircut. The film is frequently out of focus, and the lighting is bad (perhaps so we can't see Hudson's age?) The pacing is slow in many parts (A DVD's fast forward feature is good for getting past these.) This movie is okay, despite its flaws. Not great, but okay.

Hitchcoc I suppose I'm supposed to take something like this with a grain of salt. These laboratory movies (and, yes, they spend a lot of time in the laboratory), always fail in one dimension: there is an understanding that single people fooling around have uncovered secrets beyond the comprehension of anyone to this time. Of course, they pay a price because their experimenting has the same shortcomings that Dr. Frankenstein's did. There is always something they didn't anticipate. There are so many things from pure science to fashion for young ladies to outrageous cover ups that don't work here. The young woman is certainly fetching and the doctor can't help himself, but he could have been a little bit discreet or even made an effort to shelter what he was doing. Things go wrong and because of this intellect, she gains tremendous power, including an understanding of how she came to be. Rock Hudson looks pretty fit here. He never quite makes it in this role, however. It wanders all over with lots of clichés and silliness which diminishes the basic issue. Once she has her revenge a more suitable thing would be for her to wander off and allow him to seek her out and destroy her in some grand way.