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• Actors: Ron Perlman, Emmanuelle Vaugiere
• Directors: John Carpenter
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: March 20, 2007
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LPS47K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,082 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Masters of Horror: Pro-Life" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Abortion Debate Has Never Been So Loony--John Carpenter Is Pro-Entertainment, December 10, 2006

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K. Harris "Film aficionado" (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masters of Horror: Pro-Life (DVD)

John Carpenter returns to Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series with Season 2's offering "Pro-Life." As with most anthology series, the quality of any given episode and the reaction to it can be widely divergent. Carpenter's entry from last season, "Cigarette Burns," is one of its most divisive. It is regarded in some circles as the best the show had to offer and dismissed out of hand by others. I fell somewhere in between the debate ranking it in the middle/upper part of the pack.

Intriguingly enough, the Takeshi Miike episode banned from Season 1 involved a storyline revolving around abortions. "Pro-Life," as you might guess from the title, also has this as a major theme. But don't worry, this is no heavy handed diatribe--it's light and loose but still has some sting to its barbs. This is a brand of horror that I like to think of as "everything but the kitchen sink." It is a social satire and a commentary on pro-life extremists--but it also throws in a grisly birth, a massive gun fight, torture, a insectile creature with a baby head, a chasm to an alternate world, and what appears to be the devil himself. In other words, I pretty much loved it! Easily one of the more entertaining episodes, no one will confuse this with great art--but it's a whole lot of fun.

The action gets going when a doctor from a local abortion clinic almost runs down a young girl fleeing from an unknown pursuer. Taking her into the hospital to make sure she's all right, she confesses to being pregnant. She thinks God has brought her here to get an abortion. Her father ends up at the front gate demanding her return, he is a pro-life activist who has had previous run-ins with this establishment. What follows include a revelation about the unnatural origins of the fetus, a supernaturally fast pregnancy cycle, and a battle for the father to save his unborn grandchild.

There is lots of humor in "Pro-Life," plenty of gore, and some crazy creatures. Ron Perlman and Caitlin Wachs are particularly effective as the pregnant girl and her father. For sheer loony entertainment value, this gets high marks for me. KGHarris, 12/06.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars People Are Too Harsh, January 10, 2009

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The Brock Lesnar of Reviewing - The Most Hate... (The High Desert, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Masters of Horror: Pro-Life (DVD)

Okay, so I've seen quite a few episode's of Master's Of Horror and to tell you the truth 95% are not that great. But I really liked this one, I don't know what it is about it but I liked it. I see alot of folk's didn't care for it but hey, everyone is different. Anyhow a young girl get's inpregnanted by a demon and goes to have an abortion while in the meantime her father and brother's think it's a child from god and try to force her to keep it. Of course she trie's anyway's because she know's the truth about it but her crazy father chase's her to the clinic, which by the way is like a small fortress. So she get's in and her father get angry and from there insue's gun battle's, demon babie's, torture and the one thing I didn't like......the ending. If you must know about it, the girl has the baby which is like a spider/baby, the demon which imprenanted her show's up and just when you think thing's are gonna get better it doesn't. You see the demon baby get's killed but yet the demon does nothin about it and walk's off like a sad kid who lost his or her dog. Maybe they ran out of time and that's the best they could do being that there only hour long episode's but damn, you could've done better than that. I guess that's what you'd expect from John Carpenter who has made a few garbage movie's in his time........but, beside's the ending it was a good little movie, whether you like it or not is up to you, oh and by the way I would give it 3 and 1/2 stars not four.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bizzare take on the abortion debate, September 2, 2007

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Paul Schifferli (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masters of Horror: Pro-Life (DVD)

"Pro-Life" of the Masters of Horror series... Oh dear, how much can be said about this one. The story focuses on a teenage girl being taken to an abortion clinic, demanding she have her baby aborted. Why is she in such a hurry, you ask? Well, because the father of her baby is a demon, or perhaps Satan. It's never stated if the father is the Devil or just a demon, but you get to see the "father", so you be the judge. Anyway, the main obstacle for this girl is that HER father (played excellently by Ron Perlman) is pro-life, and a very serious christian. Well, the demon speaks to the father, telling him to "protect the baby", which he assumes is God telling him. So, he and his three sons break into the abortion clinic and start shooting everything that moves, which is apparently what God would want. The climax of the episode is the the Demon/Satan emerging from Hell into the abortion clinic to retrieve his son. I reccomend this for Carpenter fans, and fans of Ron Perlman. I don't reccomend this for anyone who leans strongly toward pro choice OR anti abortion, because well, this film won't change your mind, and will probably just offend you. So you've been warned