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This film is much more ferocious in its original form known as Baby Blood. There has been approximately two minutes of gore removed from many scenes. Noteably four scenes of some of the most harrowing and graphic scenes of gore ever put on celluloid.
This film is about a woman who is esentially raped by a demon that crawls out of the center of the earth. The rape is its intrusion into her womb , forcing her to give birth to it and nourish it with blood. If you can stand the exploitive and disgusting content of this film, you are in for a very mind-numbing horror experience you will never forget.
Review pertains to original version of Baby Blood which is only available in french language and no subtitles.

This isn't the greatest horror flick I've ever seen but is definitely above average and has a suprisingly good amount of gore. The movie begins by showing you a beast that has been captured in the African jungle. This beast, a jaguar, is particularly fierce...as if something is inside of it and making it so. It arrives at a circus where are leading female character lives with her abusive, circus manager boyfriend. The mere sight of the creature causes the other animals to get ancy and aggressive. Later that night, the manager wakes up, leaves his sleeping girlfriend and wanders about the circus. He finds the animal tamer weeping in front of the jaguar's cage as the beast is splattered about the cage (as if something emerged from within). Something did and it finds its way to the sleeping woman and creeps up into her womb. From this point on the movie follows her and the evil within her, which by the way can communicate with her. It needs blood to grow and drives her to seduce and kill as many people as she can in order to nourish they creature within her womb. The movie culminates with the birth of the creature and from there...things can only get bloodier as the abmonination emerges from its newborn skin and slithers onto a bus full of futbol players. This is a pretty simple plot and it is presented in a very easy to follow fashion. The female lead is attractive in a euro sort of way and the dialogue between her and the creature in her womb pretty much carries the film between the violence. The scenes of gore are suprisingly good, especially a scene towards the end that takes place in a ambulance. It's not the greatest thing to come out in recent years...

It's sad how much the English version is edited. The only uncut version on this disk is the French version. You wouldn't know it by the English language version, but this is almost a horror comedy!

I lived the first fourteen years of my life in Austria and so I was often present within European video stores. I picked this box up with a friend and marveled at the vile cover art(the version that I picked up, depicted the mother holding a monstrous baby drenched in gore) and new that we had found a winner for the night.
Baby Blood, as I knew it, was and still remains, one of the most facinatingly grotesque and visceral movies that I have ever seen. I found the idea to be truely terrifying (aliens meets rosemarys baby).
Finding an uncut version here in the states could prove to be somewhat of a challenge, however if you are a gorehound, I declare this struggle, highly worth your time and effort.
This is not your average splatter flick.

Baby Blood is a weird little French horror film but very effective.It starts out with a Creature from the Black Lagoon beginning explaining the origin of the monster from the beginning of the creation of earth.The creature enters the womb of a well built circus owners wife who is treated abusively by him. He is extremely possessive so when she disscovers she is mysterously pregnant she flees. The creature keeps talking to the host and you hear the conversations as she goes between thoughts of sucide and mothers love for the alien inside her body.The creature in the womb needs blood to survive so many bloody murders follow as the mother and creature head to the sea where the creature says he must live.There is nudity,much blood and a crazy story.everything modern horror fans will love.I highly recommend theis movie.

I'll make this short. Baby Blood was this sleazy French exploitation flick that was also utterly bizarre and twisted and not to mention it was gory as hell! which I thought was pretty sweet. The story was about a circus performer named Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) who works in the circus as part of the lion's tamer show, she is also the circus manager's girlfriend and he's not a very pleasant fellow. He abuses her both emotionally and physically and she wants nothing more than to leave her life. One day a leopard is delivered to the circus from Africa acting agitated and in turn agitating the other lions and tigers. That night the lion tamer finds the leopard completely eviscerated almost as if it burst from the inside out. Something in fact was nesting inside the leopard and the snake-looking thing decides to head towards Yanka's trailer. Asleep inside, Yanka doesn't realize that the creature is crawling its way under the bed sheets and up inside to her uterus. The next day Yanka realizes she is pregnant and decides to leave the circus, moving into a dilapidated building in the city. Whatever is growing inside of her can talk to her and tells her what to do. This baby needs blood and urges Yanka to kill to feed it, so basically the rest of the film shows us how Yanka kills all these people mostly men who she tries to seduce and then tries to head for the hospital for the gory and messy conclusion, she also develops a love/hate relationship with her 'child'. This was a very bloody and horrifying film with black comedy elements scattered throughout, Emmanuelle Escourrou was great as the conflicted Yanka who is determined to do whatever it takes for her baby to arrive and we do get to see this in the awesome and over the top bloody finale. This film definitely delivers the red stuff! Yanka violently dispatches men with throat slittings, stabbings, decapitations and oodles of blood splatter. There are some very memorable, very bloody scenes throughout the film including a paramedic guy who completely explodes in the back of an ambulance. Baby Blood was a little known gem of a horror film and I'm glad I got to see this cause it was worth it, highly recommended 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Baby Blood (Alain Robak, 1990)

I started feeling a lot better about Baby Blood once I realized it was supposed to be a comedy. At least, I think it was supposed to be a comedy. They couldn't have intended some of those scenes seriously, could they?

The film concerns Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou), a rather lovely young carny who becomes impregnated by, well, something. Dissatisfied with her carnival life, and under the command of the thing now growing inside her, she leaves the carnival and sets off on a killing spree to get blood to feed the creature.

Yeah, that's pretty much the entire plot. Still, despite the thinness of the plot and the obvious fact that Robak treated this as pretty much a straight exploitation film (it's right up Joe Bob Briggs' alley), there's something under the hood here, whether it's the film's warped sense of humor (one of the best scenes involves Yanka hijacking a bloodmobile) or the fact that there's actually character development, or Robak's approach to stereotypes (Richard the womanizer could easily drive a film of his own), this didn't come off as just-another-blood-breasts-and-beasts flick. I grant you, it doesn't come off as a deathless piece of filmmaking, either, but it's not a mindless action-horror film, either. If you're a fan of the outer edges of the horror genre, this is definitely one you should consider hunting down. ***

This is a great vid to watch if you are a fan of camp and gore. The acting is decent, the plot is easy to understand and interesting, and an above average amount of blood and goofiness, but blended into an eerie atmosphere of realism. Turn the light off and get ready for the EVIL WITHIN...

Baby Blood (also known as The Evil Within) tells the story of a woman who is impregnated with an ancient entity... that craves blood for sustenance and eventual birth. This is a French horror film by director Alain Roback (unfortuantely never did anything else worth note) that Anchor Bay has deservingly exhumed and released featuring everything intact and completely uncut (kinda like what they did with the Deep Red DVD, some lost footage has subtitles). This is less a horror film than an exploitation picture but it provides more than enough uncomfortable (especially if you are female I would guess) and macabre scenes to keep you entertained. The scenes of gore and violence are extreme while remaining really well-done, almost like mixing the over the top stylings of Dead Alive with the surrealism of Cemetary Man (and who doesn't love both those movies?)in a really grimey pot. Yanka, our female lead spends a good portion of the first quarter of the film either scantilly clad or completely full-frontal nude and although not that attractive (Mike Strahan type gap in teeth, frizzy hair, black circles under eyes) I was in need of a cold shower by the time the credits rolled. All in all a very entertaining and original movie, that although may be nothing more than exploitative sleaze... remains really, really good exploitative sleaze!

I remember watching this movie along time ago and I didn't see it all the way through, but I do remember the guy going to the van at the gas station because he saw the van shaking, and he peers inside, and ...Boo! jump out of my seat! This is a demonic tale of a creature who has been on Earth since ....well...the creation of the Earth. It wants to be reborn as a human, so it crawls up a woman and becomes her fetal baby. Pretty sadistic and evil; the woman has conversations with the child, who speaks already inside the womb. I guess there's an underlying message here that men are evil and that they have been this way since the beginning of man...but that's just me.
I'd recommend this movie to anyone who likes gory horror.
P.S.-I got this VHS before I found out about the Baby Blood (the original title) DVD, so I might get the DVD because I think it features some graphic gory footage that is missing from my VHS copy.