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I almost wanted to like this film before I'd even seen it. It was mentioned in a lot of the early Most Sickening/Disturbing film lists I read. It was French and they seem to try and push the envelope as far as horrors go. It was rated roughly a 7/10 on IMDB when I last looked, which is good going when you're as well versed as I am in art house and b-movie guff haha! I don't pay much attention to those ratings, personally, as a lot of what I collect isn't to everyone's taste - but all indications seemed positive.

This movie was pretty boring though truth be told, and I've sat through Salo/Guinea Pig/AU where there's little to no plot. The slow pace at the start really made it seem to drag for me, personally.

The premise is built around this pregnant chick who's involved in a car accident, the child's father dies, and the mother is bleeding thick dark vermillion clots from her mouth - making you think the worst for the child. Flash forward four months and she's still pregnant, about to conceive it.

There are several strange almost "premonitions" or things shown during her daydreaming that are a real mixed bag. Some effects are decently done, the CGI of the foetus in the room isn't too bad, which are good because you get an idea of the baby inside her being harmed. Theres a scene where she's projectile vomiting what looks like milk that looks terribly fake though, tbh. Literally so had I imagine I could recreate it to better effect in my own kitchen right now.

A strange woman comes to the house who wants to steal the baby, and will kill to get it. It quickly becomes apparent this is one for the gore hounds. There's bucket loads. And then some. Throats get cut and it leads to blood sprayed up the wall like a Pollack painting. The pregnant chicks own mom gets a stab to the neck on some Pandemikk shit LOL

A guy gets a pair of scissors/shears stabbed through his genitals, then the weapon gets twisted left and right just to exert more pain/blood.
The poor guy survives only to get a pillow put over his face and then stabbed again through the head. Must not have been his lucky day, eh?

So what else is there:-

The pregnant woman gets her hand stuck to the wall with the pair of giant scissors lanced through it.

A policeman gets a knitting needle to the eye, then has it struck through his skull sending him into some kind of nerve ending twitch even though he's dead.

His fellow officer gets half his face blown away by a close range shot from a gun.

There's some aerosol spray/home made flame thrower used at the end to kill off the sociopathic woman who is trying to steal the kid. The CGI lets it down again here though IMO. It looks cheap.

Mom of the year pierces her own oesophagus with a knitting needle and blood gushes out from her throat. Strangely, she then uses duct tape to try and hold the wound to neck together immediately afterwards. She arms herself with some extended spear/sheath blade looking contraption and goes hunting down the would-be kidnapper with the now-melted face.

Finding the melted-face weirdo woman, MFWW decides to now reveal she lost her baby in the car crash right at the start of the movie. Lame, but I suppose there had to be some motive, right? There's a great/horrible scene saved for near the end where the pregnant mom gets hit to the stomach with a police officers nightstick and no end of slime/placenta looking slop drops from her stomach onto the floor. It's pretty gross/lulzy.

The would-be child abducter/serial killer with the melted face then happens to find her maternal side and tries to help deliver the baby! Surely a master stroke in the script writing department there. Good lord.

But baby needs delivering - and who better? So melted face child abducting woman cuts away and the soon-to-be mum's clothing, before then taking her trusty giant set of scissors and literally CUTTING OPEN THE MOTHERS STOMACH with them to get the baby out. This is no c-section, folks. The belly is cut upwards, from the belly button, with a pair of scissors... then torn open with bare hands to get out the baby. Cue masses of dark red liquid pouring down the staircase. Pretty grim viewing, tbh.

Mom dies. Melted faced creepy weirdo child thief cradles baby in her arms and rocks him to sleep, replacing the dead child she lost in the car accident. Everyone lives unhappily ever after.

The end.




This one really didn't disturb me at all, I could imagine maybe if you were a chick or your girl was pregnant or something maybe it would be a little more disturbing? It's certainly dark subject matter but some of the effects with the baby in the womb took away from it for me. Sure, I haven't seen that done previously, but I don't doubt it could be done better. The blood looks very real an there's a lot of it for the gore fans, but there's not a whole lot more to offer here besides that. It's a blood feast. It was pretty short clocking in at around 80 mins I think? This rates under stuff like The Butcher by Noe - for me at least - and that's not even one of his more "known" flicks tbh. Not too disturbing, I could maybe see why people would think it sickening so I do give it some leeway I guess.

Watch the goriest scenes and skip the film, honestly, you're not missing much. There's way better out there.