Baby Blood (1990)

Baby Blood: Directed by Alain Robak. With Emmanuelle Escourrou, Christian Sinniger, Jean-François Gallotte, Roselyne Geslot. When a strange creature crawls into a woman’s uterus she becomes a killer in order to feed the tiny terror growing within her.

“This Gallic horror oddity sees an ancient parasitic embryo burst out of its circus animal host in order to impregnate a big-breasted, gap toothed strumpet named Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou), who is then compelled by the creature to kill ugly French men (in order to feed her new u0026#39;babyu0026#39; blood—hence the title).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBaby Blood is certainly quite splattery, with a lot of the red stuff splashed around and the occasional moment of graphic dismemberment, but even with the high gore content, I found the movie rather tedious in places, due to some rather drawn out and uneventful scenes between the visceral stuff. The story is way too simple to be stretched over feature length and needed more depth in order to fully hold this viewers attention.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirector Alain Robak shows some flair for the visuals (in fact, the opening scenes reminded me a bit of Peter Jacksonu0026#39;s directorial style), but his treatment of the story—an uneasy mix of horror and bizarrely comic moments— ends up making the film feel disjointed. Had the film been either totally serious in tone or more outrageously silly, it might have impressed me more. As it stands, it all seems a little awkward in style.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the plus side, the gore effects are well handled (lots of stabbing, a beheading, a head smashed in) and the Lovecraftian creature, seen towards the end of the film, is an impressively original looking critter—all slimy and pink, with moist quivering bits (which, for some strange reason, has reminded me to mention that star Emmanuelle Escourrou spends a lot of her time with her kit off!).”