Plot

How far would a Mother go, to get her child safely home, if home...were another planet? On the last day of the 20th Century, a story of motherly love and extreme violence.

Spoof science fiction. An alien mother and her child are pursued across England by a bunch of incompetent government agents and take refuge in a house full of vampires. Homage back to the camp tone of British directors of the 1970's such as Ken Russell, (The Lair Of The White Worm), Robert Fuest, (Dr Phibes Rises Again), and Joe McGrath, (The Magic Christian). Distributed by Troma in the U.S., it contains violence, nudity and exploding bagpipes.—Anonymous

December 31, 1999, the Last Day of the 20th Century 8:10 a.m.: Accompanied only by her @9-year old daughter, Monique, a pregnant Helene [Francesca Manning] kills a badguy posing as a room service attendant and takes his gun. She and Monique [Rebecca Stirling] then escape into the English countryside.

11:15 a.m.: Another woman who looks a lot like Helene (tall with long blonde hair and wearing sunglasses) and who is accompanied by her @9-year old son also wanders the English countryside. They purchase a horse from a lecherous farmer and ride off together. They come upon Helene and Monique and are welcomed with hugs and invited to share their campfire. After visiting for a while, the second woman and her son ride off on their horse and are suddenly open-fired upon by a group of badguys led by cold-hearted Michael Jouvet [Glyn Whiteside]. Although they fight galantly, both mother and son are killed. [At this point, the face of a screaming alien appears, and the audience gets the first hint that the dead woman and boy may not be of this earth.]

2:25 p.m.: Jouvet is not happy with his troops. They have not yet been able to catch up with and kill Helene and Monique.

7:35 p.m.: The sun has gone down and "vampires" Vickie [Vanessa Stevens] and Marie [Catherine Whitaker] are getting dressed while Tom [Glyn Whiteside] and Mina [Karen Reay] are upstairs in bed. James [Tony Hunt], who is dressed as Dracula, and his wife Rachael [Jane Sorensen] are throwing a millenium party. The plan is to hold a seance at midnight. They have even invited psychic Elizabeth [Penelope Dudley], who is currently taking a bath. James, horny as always, locks Rachael downstairs and is trying to get Vickie to have sex with him when Elizabeth suddenly gets a feeling that danger is approaching. "Don't open the front door," she screams while getting out of the tub. Too late. Helene breaks in the front door and shoots James several times in the chest, instantly killing "Dracula".

10:25 p.m.: While Helene holds everyone at gunpoint, Elizabeth attempts to talk with her, but Helene speaks only French. Fortunately, Vickie can translate. They learn that everyone is in terrible danger because badguys are after Monique. Helene asks for weapons. (She now begins to speak in English.) Suddenly a couple of the badguys break into the house and start shooting. Helene is able to kill them with her handgun and retrieve their submachine guns. Helene is somehow wounded and pulls a pulsing mass (her fetus?) from her stomach. Eeew.

11:40 p.m.: While wounded Helene lies in Elizabeth's arms and Vickie, Marie, and Mina, armed with machine guns, hold off the assassins, Monique becomes fascinated by the angel at the top of the Christmas tree. She carries the angel downstairs and, using only her mind, she unlocks the door into the room where Rachael is sitting. Meanwhile, Tom attempts to run from the house but is shot by Jouvet, who says as he pulls the trigger, "Goodbye, little brother." When one of the badguys tries to enter the room where Rachael and Monique are sitting, Monique uses her mindpower to cause him to bleed to death. Mina is killed by one of the badguys, and Jouvet breaks into the house.

11:59 p.m.: Suddenly a spaceship appears in the sky. It begins shooting down the remaining badguys. It finally dawns on Elizabeth that Helene and Monique are not from France, but from another world. Two more blonde-haired alien women are beamed down into the house. Jouvet shoots Helene, but the two aliens force Jouvet to turn his gun on himself. As Helene lays dying on the floor, she tells Monique to go with the two aliens as they are her "own people." Monique beams up with the aliens, Helene dies, and Rachael takes possession of Helene's newborn.

Epilogue: It is @7-8 years in the future. The survivors -- Rachael, Elizabeth, Vickie, Marie, and Helene's second daughter -- are throwing rocks in a pond. Voiceover: The future is always a mystery; the past a puzzle. We never found out the whole history of Helene and Monique; we are left to wonder. But the example of this new, mysterious child will have to be enough, for in this chaotic and savage world, if we cannot put our faith in our children, wherever they may come from, then what can we put our faith in? [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]