An ancient evil parasitic creature impregnates sexy circus performer Yanka (an incredibly wild and fearless performance by the strikingly gorgeous and voluptuous brunette knockout Emmanuelle Escourrou) and forces the poor tormented young lass to embark on a cross country killing spree in which the lovely lady drinks the blood of her victims in order to feed the foul and wicked fetus growing inside of her. Better still, the nasty little nipper even talks (an uncredited Gary Oldman does the baby's monstrous voice in the dubbed American version!). Director/co-screenwriter Alain Robak gleefully pours on the ghastly graphic gore by the gloriously disgusting and excessive bucketful: throats are slashed open, heads get bashed in, one dude messily explodes and the red stuff spurts all over the place with joyously appalling abandon. Moreover, Robak relates the exceptionally insane and tasteless premise with a hilariously sick sense of hysterically grotesque black-as-midnight humor (the single funniest moment occurs when the baby admonishes Yanka for trying to smoke while pregnant!). Since the guys in the film are a bunch of hateful and repulsive leering lecherous creeps, the movie takes on a singularly warped and surprising psycho feminist slant. Why, we even got a shockingly substantial amount of genuinely touching pathos to be relished in the peculiar love/hate relationship that develops between Yanka and the bestial bloodthirsty baby. Carlos Acciari's funky, throbbing, percussive score, Bernard Dechet's bright, slick, agile cinematography, and the comely Escourrou's occasional eye-popping nude scenes further enhance the delectably deranged and depraved fun. A splendidly strange and startling one-of-a-kind stunner.

This Gallic horror oddity sees an ancient parasitic embryo burst out of its circus animal host in order to impregnate a big-breasted, gap toothed strumpet named Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou),who is then compelled by the creature to kill ugly French men (in order to feed her new 'baby' blood—hence the title).

Baby Blood is certainly quite splattery, with a lot of the red stuff splashed around and the occasional moment of graphic dismemberment, but even with the high gore content, I found the movie rather tedious in places, due to some rather drawn out and uneventful scenes between the visceral stuff. The story is way too simple to be stretched over feature length and needed more depth in order to fully hold this viewers attention.

Director Alain Robak shows some flair for the visuals (in fact, the opening scenes reminded me a bit of Peter Jackson's directorial style),but his treatment of the story—an uneasy mix of horror and bizarrely comic moments— ends up making the film feel disjointed. Had the film been either totally serious in tone or more outrageously silly, it might have impressed me more. As it stands, it all seems a little awkward in style.

On the plus side, the gore effects are well handled (lots of stabbing, a beheading, a head smashed in) and the Lovecraftian creature, seen towards the end of the film, is an impressively original looking critter—all slimy and pink, with moist quivering bits (which, for some strange reason, has reminded me to mention that star Emmanuelle Escourrou spends a lot of her time with her kit off!).

French cinema isn't exactly known for its many horror masterpieces (the exceptions that prove this rule are "Les Yeux Sans Visage" and the more recent "Haute Tension") but, as much as in every other country, there are always some gore-loving genre fanatics that sooner or later direct their own independent cult gem. Alain Robak clearly is such an enthusiast filmmaker and his "Baby Blood" is a hugely entertaining and cheerful splatterfest, despite the poor and inept screenplay. The relatively unknown but impressively voluptuous Emmanuelle Escourrou (what's in a name) stars as the unhappy fiancée of a circus artist who gets impregnated by a parasite that burst out a newly imported cheetah. The fetus growing inside Yanka is pure evil and demands her to kill men so that it can feed on their blood. This results in some of the most over-the-top bloody and sadistic massacres ever shot on film, with cut off heads, slit throats and many outrageous knife-attacks. Of course, this exaggerated amount of bloodshed makes it all blackly comical and "Baby Blood" therefore shouldn't be taken too seriously. This isn't the fist horror film handling about ferocious fetuses/infants (there's also "It's Alive", "I don't want to be Born" and even the premise of "Rosemary's Baby" is remotely similar) but "Baby Blood" is much more creative and tongue-in-cheek than anything you've ever seen before. The camera-work is quite nifty and there are several cameos of eminent Frenchmen, like Jacques Audiard (director of "Read My Lips") and Alain Chabat (who played Caesar in "Asterix"). The script is very man-unfriendly, which is quite a new approach for exploitation! Nearly every male is presented as a weak and imbecile creature whereas Yanka gets stronger with every murder she commits. "Baby Blood" is ingenious, somewhat bizarre horror fun.