Baby Blood (1990)

When a strange creature crawls into a woman's uterus she becomes a killer in order to feed the tiny terror growing within her.

Director:

Alain Robak

Writers:

Serge Cukier, Alain Robak

Stars:

Emmanuelle Escourrou, Christian Sinniger, Jean-François Gallotte

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Emmanuelle Escourrou	...	Yanka
Christian Sinniger	...	Lohman (L'homme en cuir)
Jean-François Gallotte	...	Richard
Roselyne Geslot	...	Rosette, la caissière du self
François Frappier	...	Le premier camionneur / Leopard Deliveryman (as François Frapier)
Thierry Le Portier	...	Le dompteur
Rémy Roubakha	...	Le chauve du taxi / Passenger in Taxi
Eric Averlant	...	Le chauffeur du car / Driver of Car
Alain Robak	...	Voix du monstre (as Roger Placenta)
Alain Chabat	...	Le passant égorgé / Passer by
Jacques Audiard	...	Le décapité / Jogger
Jean-Claude Romer	...	Le conducteur de la camionnette / Howling Man
Jean-Yves Lafesse	...	Le conducteur du poids lourd
Yann Piquer	...	Le clochard
Anne Singer	...	La femme de l'hôtel

Storyline

A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. It soon starts demanding blood, and the woman goes searching for victims for her new "baby."

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Plot Keywords:

circus | blood | baby | murder | female nudity | 

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Taglines:

It's time to feed the baby.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

24 January 1990 (France)

Also Known As:

The Evil Within

Box Office

Budget:

FRF 1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Partner's Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

80 women auditioned for the role of Yanka.

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Connections

Referenced in Horror Business (2005)

User Reviews

What an adorably little monster-baby!

French cinema isn't exactly known for its many horror masterpieces (the exceptions that prove this rule are "Les Yeux Sans Visage" and the more recent "Haute Tension") but, as much as in every other country, there are always some gore-loving genre fanatics that sooner or later direct their own independent cult gem. Alain Robak clearly is such an enthusiast filmmaker and his "Baby Blood" is a hugely entertaining and cheerful splatterfest, despite the poor and inept screenplay. The relatively unknown but impressively voluptuous Emmanuelle Escourrou (what's in a name) stars as the unhappy fiancée of a circus artist who gets impregnated by a parasite that burst out a newly imported cheetah. The fetus growing inside Yanka is pure evil and demands her to kill men so that it can feed on their blood. This results in some of the most over-the-top bloody and sadistic massacres ever shot on film, with cut off heads, slit throats and many outrageous knife-attacks. Of course, this exaggerated amount of bloodshed makes it all blackly comical and "Baby Blood" therefore shouldn't be taken too seriously. This isn't the fist horror film handling about ferocious fetuses/infants (there's also "It's Alive", "I don't want to be Born" and even the premise of "Rosemary's Baby" is remotely similar) but "Baby Blood" is much more creative and tongue-in-cheek than anything you've ever seen before. The camera-work is quite nifty and there are several cameos of eminent Frenchmen, like Jacques Audiard (director of "Read My Lips") and Alain Chabat (who played Caesar in "Asterix"). The script is very man-unfriendly, which is quite a new approach for exploitation! Nearly every male is presented as a weak and imbecile creature whereas Yanka gets stronger with every murder she commits. "Baby Blood" is ingenious, somewhat bizarre horror fun.