Review of Baby Blood

BABY BLOOD (1990) ** Uneven horror film from French filmmaker Alain Robak (who co-scripted with Sege Cukier) about a young woman (the ethereal Emmanuelle Escourrou) becomes impregnated by a primordial monster whose incubation leads to a telekinetic communique between host and parasite ….and buckets of bloodshed to slake its thirst to thrive and grow from within. While body horror enthusiasts may rejoice in the splatter-ific f/x one can only wonder what a real artist like David Cronenberg could've done in this horribly written (the dialogue is laughably awful) slog yet the buxom (frequently nude; thank you!) gap-toothed Escourrou acts up a storm not unlike Isabelle Adjani in POSSESSION which this genre pic is a kissing cousin to but not as gonzo-for-broke nuts as it could've been.