It makes quickly and keeps the audience engaged throughout. Robak plays it as a hissing, snarky and rather angry character, delivering his lines with an almost sniveling style that proves to be quite effective.Īt just under ninety-minutes, the film is paced strongly. You might expect an unborn baby to have a ‘sweet' or ‘impish' sounding voice, but that's not the case here. It's hard to imagine the picture working as well as it does with anyone else cast in that part.ĭirector Robak, credited as Roger Placenta, does the voice of the fetus and he's pretty entertaining here. The supporting characters, mostly men that want to take advantage of her or simply use her for a lay, are also all well-played but Escourrou is a few rungs higher on the ladder here than everyone else in the film. She uses her facial expressions to communicate really well and, without wanting to spoil things, really throws her whole body into a key scene later in the film to make the events convincing enough to succeed. She's also quite bold and clearly has no problem running about buck naked covered in blood when the script calls for it. She doesn't talk a lot in this film, her character is on the quiet side, but she does a great job with the material. The film is also peppered with a nice sense of black humor throughout, which helps to lighten the load a little bit in a few scenes, the conversations between Yanka and the thing inside her providing most of this.Ī big part of what makes Baby Blood work is Emmanuelle Escourrou.
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There are some pretty disturbing and gory moments in this movie that really make the almost Cronenbergian body horror quite effective and, well, just plain gross.
That said, seeing it uncut, with the extreme scenes of bodily violence reinstated, the film has a lot more impact and just plays a lot better. When this picture was released in North America as The Evil Within, missing quite a bit of gore footage and with certain scenes rearranged, the film didn't really work so well. As their relationship becomes less hostile, she eventually learns that she needs to get it to the sea and sets out to do just that, ensuring that it has enough sustenance along the way. She knows that when she smokes or drinks it has an effect on the creature because it tells her as much. As she's able to communicate with it, they develop a strange relationship. As she becomes accustomed to killing for her baby, she winds up going on a bit of a murder spree while the thing inside of her grows at an alarmingly fast rate. The creature, her ‘baby', craves fresh blood and is able to make Yanka kill to keep it alive. Yanka soon heads out of the circus to get away from her abusive husband, but she has a new and even worse problem now. Soon Yanka realizes what has happened to her and that a creature has taken over her unborn child. One of the animal trainers notes that the animal just exploded, and there's slimy goop all over the cage where it was kept. When the animal dies in a freak incident, a parasitic creature that was dwelling inside of it pops out ‘Alien style' from the corpse and finds its way into Yanka's body. When the circus takes possession of a leopard that has just been imported from somewhere in Africa, her life gets much stranger.
Early on in Alain Robak's film, Lohman (Christian Sinniger), a twisted and sadistic traveling circus owner abuses his pregnant wife, Yanka (played by the unusual looking but not unattractive gap-toothed Emmanuelle Escourrou).
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