Sunday, March 1st, 2009, 7PM: CREEPY PREGNANT LADY -- Double Feature!!!!
Yes, it's that time again, International Cinema presents a thematic cinema event revolving around one of horror cinema's most explored staples, the creepy pregnant lady. In deciding what films to show for Sunday's event, I tried to choose two unique and entertaining features. Lazy choices would have been Rosemary's Baby (1969), or the recent Inside (2007). Some of the films I considered that didn't make the schedule: The Unborn (1991), that crap Roger Corman film I've referenced somewhere already with Brooke Adams; It's Alive (1974), an excellent Larry Cohen classic, homage to Rosemary; I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) aka Sharon's Baby, a Joan Collins crap-fest that looked so bad it wouldn't be entertaining, and several other films I can't remember off the top of my head.
The selections I did choose, as you can see from the pictures:
Baby Blood (1990) -- Starring Emmanuelle Escourrou, directed by Alain Robak. Strangely enough, the more I learned about this feature I discovered that last year, in 2008, a sequel was penned by Ms. Escourrou and was released in France as Lady Blood, as apparently the 1990 film has developed a cult following. I have borrowed this synopsis from imdb.com:
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."
Doesn't that sound excellent? And so, to balance this obviously over-the-top feature:
You'll Like My Mother (1972) -- Starring Patty Duke and filmed in Duluth, Minnesota in the Glensheen mansion---before the Glensheen murders. Now, if you know anything about that history, then you'll realize this is creepy. The plot revolved around a recently widowed pregnant woman, played by Duke, who goes to visit her mother-in-law in wintry Minnesota, only to find some disturbing secrets.....Sounds like a cross between Die! Die! My Darling (1965) and Hush (1998).
What you will need for Creepy Pregnant Lady Night: Please wear loose fitting clothing, or bring a hoodie. I will have blown up balloons for those in attendance in order to simulate pregnancy. In between the films, you will receive a closed envelope from me, which will indicate whether or not your baby is healthy, an economic drain, etc. You will use this information to determine whether or not to abort your baby. But first you must divulge an explanation to the rest of the group and it must be voted on. The surviving fetuses must be given a name by their respective parents and at the end of the second film, another scenario will determine whose babies will survive.
Additionally, Pregnancy Test Martinis and Stuffed Ricotta Shells will be served in honor of repulsive pregnancies in horror cinema.
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