Alicia I love this movie so much

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

gridoon2018 Yet another cautionary "scientists-shouldn't-try-to-play-God" sci-fi thriller; the first half strives for scientific accuracy, of sorts, and is a little too claustrophobic, but when Barbara Carrera (in a great breakout performance - I feel compelled to mention that she has a memorable nude scene as well!) enters the picture, it "opens up" and builds to a good shock ending. It moves slowly, but you don't really know where it's taking you; it's an advantage that there are no clear-cut "villains" in this story. Rock Hudson gives a committed performance in a genre unusual for him, and even that dog is an amazing actor. Be warned: the Mill Creek DVD print I watched is pretty awful. **1/2 out of 4.

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.

TheExpatriate700 Although Embryo could have been a potentially thought provoking examination of bioethics, it degenerates into a stereotypical Frankenstein parable, putting across the by now monotonous lesson that there were some realms man was not meant to enter or study.Scientist Rock Hudson is experimenting with ways to prevent miscarried babies from dying. After success with a dog, he immediately jumps to humans-violating medical ethics and any sense of plausibility-with the equally unrealistic assistance of a hospital administrator. His experiment works too well, with some decidedly unpleasant side effects.Although Barbara Carrera is reasonably good in her role, and some of the animal training is spectacular, the film suffers from being too fantastical. Even though a message at the prologue assures viewers that this represents contemporary technology, the scientific work depicted looks far fetched even for the twenty-first century, let alone the mid- 1970s. Furthermore, the scene where Carrera is able to find a cure for the side effects of bioengineering simply by typing a question into a computer is laughable.

bkoganbing Rock Hudson's second venture in the science fiction genre after Seconds is Embryo a film that combines elements of the Bride of Frankenstein and Pygmalion in one rather weird film about for lack of a better word a test tube baby that grows up to be Barbara Carrera.Hudson is scientist experimenting in organic development and gets a chance to first experiment on his own Doberman pincher when it is accidentally hit by his car. Some pituitary secretions from the female dog are given to a prematurely born puppy and it grows remarkably into an adult. Exalted with his success, Hudson takes a fetus from a dead accident victim and gives it some of the same stuff.What he gets is Barbara Carrera. And she develops physically and intellectually at a prodigious rate. What she doesn't do is develop emotionally. Still Hudson passes her off as his new research assistant to friends and family like sister-in-law Diane Ladd, son John Elerick, and daughter-in-law Anne Schedeen. Embryo doesn't explore some of the real issues in this kind of science, it exploits them instead. The special effects as they are, are pretty second rate. Hudson looks like he lost interest in the project about halfway through the film.Now what would have really been interesting is if he had gotten boy child and it grew up to be a harlequin novel hero. Now that would have been something Rock Hudson could have sunk his teeth into.