Nice effects though.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The first must-see film of the year.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The only people giving this amateur pile of crap more than a 3 or 4 are people who are obsessed with the taboo of the taboo, and that still only applies if you buy into vaguely feminist cinema, or care to explore something as droll as motherhood. Here's a message that should be sent out to everyone who gave this film an 8: motherhood happens all the time, and it's been done. Done to death. And this is a painful example of a director who knew he could get a sympathy DVD sale from adventurous housewives. The constant vegan/matriarchal imagery was painful to watch and couldn't get any less subtle. This movie will not make you think. This movie won't make an emotionally healthy person ponder motherhood, morality, or science. All it will make you do is wish you watched 11/11/11, and that movie is pure garbage, but at least it was funny.

I had read a few of the reviews on here of this film before I decided to watch and being a small fan of Cheryl Ladd I thought I would give it a go. Cheryl Ladd shines in this film most definitely her best film I have seen her in to date or her best acted role anyways. Baby Grace in places is very cute and you cant help but feel sorry for Grace and her mum especially. So to review the film without giving too much away, it is slow paced but gives you a feeling of what's going on and why, time to bond with mummy and baby. Gory atmosphere to the film but not much in the ways of bloody gore but its grizzly and isn't pleasant in places to watch. Maybe a slightly cop out abrupt ending. Overall if you want a flick to pass the time and something that's going to sick in your mind afterwards then this is the one for you - just don't expect too much from it.

It's always so disappointing when movies like this crap fools the consumer to buy the movie that has a DVD Cover with something interesting-looking on it's front side.But i shouldn't be too surprised after all. Already from the beginning the movie turned out to be a real strange piece of work from the director side. I first reacted on the b*****g attitude the mother had - and as for all these kind of movies; they always shall be some kind of rebels and ignore serious facts and stick to their own lines. Even if it matters others life and health. She insists on calling her "doctor" when the baby start drinking blood. She not even call the emergency number when the baby gets bad and ugly reactions on her skin. And why on earth do you feed your baby with fresh blood from meat packages, directly brought from the store!? Why not get the hell to the phone and call the REAL doctors? Well of course not, "we shall just feed this 'thing' with little more blood, dam the blood is end, i need new bodies... and oh, yeah let her nag a bit on me, that will do her fine" "And because Im a sort of ultra - vegetarian, i DO NOT WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING WITH STATE FINANCIAL AND REGULAR HOSPITALS TO DO, THEY CAN (citate) 'FUCK YOURSELF'.Im so tired of that kind of rebelism personality, can't characters in horror movies, if just for once, have a SMART SCRIPT to follow - a script where they acting normally, like REGULAR folks does in these kind of situations!? Can't directors and writers of Horror movies these days just REALIZE that folks getting extremely enoyed when characters you're suppose to create some sort of relationship with through the movie, RUNNING AND B******G AROUND, if you want a movie with pure horror, then i suggest you to study how folks acting in different situations and crisis, even tho the plot is about something picked from the imaginary; mixing up realistic acting WILL BOOST THE MOVIE UP, you can TRUST ME on that!Thank you.PS. The animal film in the background; what was that all about?

Dark, depressing, very disturbing film about a young woman, Madeline(Jordan Ladd)whose baby dies before she's able to carry her to full term, after a car crash which took the life of her husband, Michael(Stephen Park). Insisting on delivering the baby anyway, the infant somehow revives and has an insatiable thirst for human blood, evident by how Grace(the baby's name)suckles the deep crimson from her mommy's breast. Michael's domineering mother, Vivian(Gabrielle Rose, in a superb performance), unable to fully recover from the loss of her son, will seek to take Grace from Madeline, so she can relive the "mother experience"(we even see her testing out an old breast pump used on Michael when he was a baby). Patricia Lang(Samantha Ferris)is Madeline's "midwife", an alternative to the hospital doctor(which ruffles Vivian's feathers), and we can see that the two once had a lesbian relationship in college together. Patricia steal carries a torch for Madeline, but the feelings don't seem to be mutual. Shelly(Kate Herriot)is Patricia's associate and lover, clearly jealous of her affection for Madeline(Shelly even hides the fact that Madeline has called a number of times about emergencies concerning Grace!). Madeline slowly deteriorates both physically and psychologically as Grace both bleeds her into anemia and demands more "food", with Vivian concocting a plan to snatch the baby away with help from her old pediatrician, Dr. Richard Sohn(Malcolm Stewart). When Sohn(and later Vivian) attempts to take Grace away, believing her to be sick, matters worsen..Director Paul Solet shoots most of the action up close, especially on the faces of his cast. The subject matter, regarding a baby's vampiric thirst, is certainly shocking, and the final image, I figure, will cause many a viewer to agonize..it's really a cringe-inducing climax which shows just how much a mother loves her child. I think that's the film's theme, the lengths for which a mother will go for her daughter, not only suffering herself, but what she's willing to do to keep Grace satisfied, and fed. It can get really bloody. Blood splashes on the floor when Madeline's water breaks. While giving birth, a mass of blood erupts from Madeline's vagina. Blood is a constant in this movie, the loss during the birthing cycle(or perhaps something that happened during the pregnancy), I guess, contributes to why Grace needs it for food. The blood illness Grace suffers is ambiguously presented in the film, and we can only conjecture what truly caused it. Ladd looks mostly fatigued and weakened in the movie, the toll of the pregnancy, the loss of her husband, Grace's need for blood, all attributing to her character's state by the end of the film. We never actually see Madeline happy, only as Grace suckles from her breast for the first time after birth does she show any form of joy, and it is a tired happiness that will soon subside. But, there's no denying Madeline's motherly love for Grace, and we see, time and again, how she tries to appease the baby. The most emotionally wrenching scene involves Madeline holding her dead baby after birth, not accepting Grace's demise, an unyielding belief that she will live.