Another killer fetus movie... I seriously have too many of these in my collection. I swear it's unintentional. With Baby Blood I must admit, I found myself drifting from the beginning of this film, but found most of the film quite riveting, minus the ending, which I will not discuss.
The plot is basically a wormy thing bursts out of a leopard and impregnates one of the employee of the circus, where the leopard was held. She was living with this real jerk, but then again most of the men in this film are jerks. Think of it like this, instead of all the women in a horror movie being stupid and annoying, all the men are just jerks. Anyways the fetus talks to the new "mother" and she leaves el-jerko and goes on a killing spree, feeding on the blood of her victims for the fetus. Seriously.
It is a gorefest, that's for sure, and I was put off guard originally. The cover said gorehound's delight, and the first 20 minutes was not really compelling, and did nothing to prepare you for what was coming.
The communications between the mother and the fetus are quite funny sometimes, and the fetus' plan to overthrow humanity it's so ridicules that even the mother starts laughing. I also found it hilarious when, during the climax, the mother runs around the city just showered in blood and parts of people, and no one seems to find it weird. I mean it doesn't even get a weird stare.
I really enjoyed how the mother, played by Escourrou plays her victims. This has been done many times obviously in many movies, but this one was really compelling, and both felt realistic and felt like dark comedy.
Overall I enjoyed this one, despite some flaws, so I give it 4 bloodthirsty fetus' out of 5.
Now there supposedly some bad cuts of this film going around. Apparently the original US cut is pretty terrible, taking away most of the movies edge. Though I can't testify to this myself I could definitely see that. I can't even imagine trying to change this movie into a palatable, typical horror movie. And in my "fully restored" addition there is some really good dubbing... sometimes. Ya, that's right... some of the dialogue isn't even dubbed. The movie just reverts between french and English at whim. During the french parts I had no idea what they where saying, despite being able to understand some french. Guess there IS a big difference between Canadian french and French french.
Now will you like it. Well put it this way, if you think you might you probably will, and if you think you won't you probably wont.