Baby Blood (1990)

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This French film is more disturbing than silly American killer baby flicks like "The Unborn" series.

Emmanuelle Escourrou is Yanka, a voluptuous young woman working at a circus. A mysterious leopard is brought in, and something escapes from it, and slips into Yanka. She begins feeling like she is pregnant, but with a couple of differences. She can communicate with her brood telepathically, and it answers her in a grown male's voice, and she has a pregnancy craving for something worse than ice cream and pickles- human blood.

There are plenty of gory moments here, all encapsulated into scenes. The ambulance scene and the apartment scene stand out. The finale involves a near assault on a bus full of football players. While some of the scenes drag, and the ending is a little telegraphed, the gore is thrown all over the screen. I had not seen this kind of bloodshed since "Killer Tongue." Escourrou is great, and Robak's direction is also quick and imaginative. His shots surprised me, as he goes in the complete opposite direction that some hack B movie American director would have taken.

Also known as the generic "The Evil Within," "Baby Blood" is a full assault on the senses, and the sensitive.

Stats:
(1990) 88 min. (* * * *) out of five stars
-Directed by Alain Robak
-Written by Serge Cukier, Alain Robak
-Cast: Emmanuelle Escourrou, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Francois Gallotte, Roselyne Geslot, Francois Frapier, Thierry Le Porter, Remy Roubakha, Eric Averlant, Alain Robak, Alain Chabat, Jacques Audiard, Jean-Claude Romer, Jean-Yves Lafesse
(R)