Michael Moriarty stars as Stephen Jarvis, the latest man to father a mutant baby. The movie opens in a courtroom where Stephen's baby is broung in chained in a cage!!
After a volatile court drama in which the baby gets out of its cage, the judge (Macdonald Carey) orders all of the mutant children across the country be moved to an isolated islane where people don't live.
Jarvis has a hard time in the real world as he loses job after job because of his mutant baby, and women, when they discover who he is are repulsed. This is really brought out on a scene between Jarvis and a hooker (Laurene Landon).
After 5 years pass Jarvis goes back to the island with a group of scientists and everyone gets killed but Jarvis. The mutant children are full grown now and they have him pilot the boat back to where they were born...the good old USA.
This is where the movie gets really weird. Jarvis jumps ship and is captured by Cubans. After a short time the Cubans return Jarvis to American shores and wish him well!! It's hilarious.
The final has the mutants seeking Jarvis and his ex-wife Ellen (Karen Black) because they are dying from measels and have given birth to a mutant of their own, and they know Jarvis will take care of it.
This is easily Larry Cohen's most outrageous film in the trilogy. It goes everywhere, and what a ride. Moriarty is over the top as usual and his stint as a shoe salesman is classic.
The rest of the cast includes James Dixon, Gerrit Graham, Art Lund, Ann Dane, and Neal Israel.
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