Oh no, not another evil child horror film I hear you cry! Yet there's something very fresh about Paul Solet's movie, it's deeply unsettling but emotionally complex, even gnawing away at our inner built capacities for empathy and sympathy.Jordan Ladd plays the mother of the piece, hit with personal tragedy time and time again, her will is tested to the limit when a car crash strips her of her husband and renders the baby she is carrying as being a sure case of still born. But she's determined to carry it to term, and when she literally wills the dead child alive, it responds in kind and becomes Grace, the miracle baby…What follows is the disintegration of Ladd's character and of the key characters around her. Meditations on grief are heavy but richly so, as is the nods to post-natal depression. The horror elements are strong, as baby Grace shows a thirst for something other than milk, and the slow-burn approach favoured by Solet pays off with a final quarter of heartbreaking devilment. Cast are dandy, especially a very committed Ladd, while other tech credits keep the film very much in the upper echelons of this sub-genre of horror. 8.5/10

Madeline and Michael Matheson (Ladd & Park) are thrilled about their upcoming baby. Michael and his parents are not happy with Madeline's decision to go to a midwife named Patricia (Ferris) who is later revealed to be an ex-lover of Madeline's. An unexpected car accident kills Michael and supposedly kills the baby inside of Madeline. She still gives birth with Patricia and everyone is devastated at the dead baby, until Grace seems to will the baby back to life. Madeline goes into seclusion with her baby who seems to be attracting flies and is doing a nasty number on mommy's breast while breast feeding. This is not a normal baby and Madeline catches on to its blood lust. At first she buy's meat from the store and pours animal blood in the bottle and eventually she must look to humans for fresh blood. This twisted story by Writer/Director Paul Solet is clever in how it unfolds on screen. The couple is very normal and once the dead baby is brought to life things go from bad to worse. Solet doesn't spell every detail out either like how is the baby alive? Or is it really alive, or is she alive only Madeline's mind? The script wisely lets the audience draw their own conclusions which keep things fresh throughout. Nothing jumps out at you, there aren't jump scares or any real suspense, this films terror lies in its subject matter and how it goes from bad to worse. The cast is good with Jordan Ladd doing a nice job in the lead and Samantha Ferris is very believable as the jilted lesbian lover.

Writer / director Paul Solet's take on a mother's love and devotion makes for a genuinely creepy, satirical movie also containing a fair amount of pitch black humour. While it's really too slowly paced, there's no denying that it achieves a palpably gloomy and uncomfortable atmosphere. It would understandably be a hard movie for some to stomach. Jordan Ladd plays Madeline, a woman coldly determined to have a baby no matter what she has to do. After an unfortunate traffic accident, her unborn baby dies inside her, yet she is intent on delivering her anyway. Somehow, she is able to will this little girl, Grace, back to life, but it comes at a heavy price: the kid needs not milk to drink but blood. While, admittedly, this aspect may remind viewers of other killer baby cinema such as Larry Cohen's "It's Alive", Solet never goes the truly cheesy route and keeps certain kinds of effects to a minimum. Of course, with the story being what it is, it allows for enough gore and plenty of the red stuff to keep some viewers satisfied. Some of the story twists are fairly interesting; for one thing, Madeline is actually a lesbian who likely only hooked up with her husband for procreation purposes. And the woman whom she used to be with isn't really able to let her go. Madeline's mother- in-law Vivian, played in a fairly heavy handed way by Gabrielle Rose, desperately wants this grandchild to herself - and hopes to prove Madeline unfit, which isn't exactly far off the mark as the experience has clearly taken a toll on Madeline; in one jaw dropping scene, Vivian and her husband (Serge Houde) engage in a bit of weird role playing. All in all, this *is* quite a brave little movie, certain to hit any mother right where they live, that goes to some pretty dark places. It's a provocative, emotionally unsettling movie with convincing performances, especially from beautiful Ladd who shows some real acting chops here. Rose also does have some moments where one has to be impressed with her commitment. True enough that this is the kind of thing that one doesn't easily forget, with a coda that they may not expect, as well as a final punchline typical of the black humour within. Look for producer Adam Green (director of "Hatchet") in a cameo appearance as the man selling meat at the supermarket. Seven out of 10.

OK...I like horror films. Psycho characters and plot twists always can make a film even better to watch. But..this mess was anything but entertaining. The woman playing the main part seemed to be in a haze..kind of limping through her part with no real interest in what she was suppose to be doing. Yes..I know...she was a mental case, she just lost a kid...blah, blah,blah..but it was just ridiculous to watch. She has a baby that somehow has risen from the dead..no reaction there..she has to grind up meat to feed it..still little emotion..and then when she actually breastfeed...you see a few grimaces of pain...but not much..even after she begins to bleed. She avoids everyone who tries to come see her and the new infant..then begins killing to again feed her child fresh meat. If this happened in real life, it wouldn't take long for the authorities to show up and all hell would break loose...but...of course..the only one really shows any interest in what is going on is the nosy woman who ends up being killed and having her blood drained out of her. Yum. The end was even more lame...the psycho mother..fully recovered from her ordeal..of course...(there is a scar..healed so quickly it seems..wow)..and they are not riding along as a passenger in a huge RV. Mother and baby are doing fine it seems...but wait...it is time to kill again...and look...there is a place to stop up ahead. OMG...the killing is going to begin..again. AHHHH....what a waste of time it was to turn this movie on. No wonder it is on a FREE movie channel. Maybe it is just me...but seeing bloody chewed up breasts being fed to an infant is JUST TOO GROSS. There is a fine line between horror and sick stuff..this one crossed that line.