The Kindred

The Kindred (1987) is an American sci-fi horror film you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow, it stars David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays, and Kim Hunter. When scientist Amanda dies, she begs her son John to destroy her lab notes — and lets slip that he had a brother.

John heads to his mother's house with a group of friends and a woman named Melissa who seems far too familiar with the dead researcher's work. What they find isn't a sibling in any recognizable sense — it's a creature born from genetic experimentation, capable of forcing its way inside a human body and impossible to reason with. The house, the lab and everything in it becomes a trap.

The creature effects are practical and deliberately visceral — built from latex and silicone by the hands-on school of eighties horror, not a CGI shortcut in sight. That old-school tactility is exactly why The Kindred still lands for fans of the genre. Stream it online on iFILM.