Oct 30 2008
You’re the host…and the dinner!
About 18 years ago, French director Alain Robak unleashed a vicious little horror pic called Baby Blood on an unsuspecting genre viewership and ended up with a cult favorite. The movie — in a nasty, putrid nutshell — was about a young woman who turned into a flesh-chomping killer after a strange critter entered her body and took over the fetus developing in her womb, thus demanding an ever-increasing supply of blood from its mother host to feed it.
Now, a new team of filmmakers has created a sequel. Robak isn’t connected, but Baby Blood star Emmanuelle Escourrou, who played the young mother Yanka in the original, reprises her role in the gory follow-up and co-wrote the script as well. Entitled Lady Blood, the pic begins many years later, with Yanka recovered from her trauma: she’s a happily married mother of a healthy young daughter, and she also holds a rewarding job as a police chief. But, naturally, weird occurrences begin to unsettle the calm normalcy of her world, and her investigations into a local mob begin to uncover a series of messy killings…ones that mirror the savage acts she committed while under the mysterious creature’s influence in the past.
Judging from the blood-soaked teaser, Lady Blood looks to be even more shot-on-the-cheap than its predecessor, but there certainly seems to be no shortage of energy, style, or le sang.
You can also visit the official website to keep yourself on-track with future distribution possibilities.
