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If ‘the substance’ captivated you, look at this visceral French horror piece in Netflix

‘The substance’ finally did not take the deserved Oscar to those who was nominatedbut his single presence in the ceremony is poison for everything that is hollow in Hollywood with his radical proposal. In fact, his messages about the demands that the entertainment industry requires the female body anticipated, in fact, which ended up being the award for best actress (a mature Demi Moore defeated by a version of itself that was much better in front of the cameras). But We can celebrate his moral triumph with a good dose of marrano horror filmbloody and with a radical message thanks to this French gore classic of the nineties that dialogues perfectly with the movie of Coralie Fargeat.

It’s about ‘Baby Blood‘, that He has just arrived in Netflix And that proposes a cheap, rude and direct festival of wild humor, dribs of blood at discretion and a message that touches the antisocial. Everything starts when a strange creature is introduced into a woman’s uterus. The brand new pregnant has no choice but to become a murderer to feed the being that lives in its bosom. Like life itself.

The result drinks both of the fantastic cinema of the fifties but in a key completely out of mother (with forgiveness) and of the Frank Henenlotter ‘Basket Case’ and ‘Brain Damage’ classics, but in gala version, that is, even more scarf and dirty. Such an influences blender is The ideal bridge between the gore cinema more serve as eighties and what was to come both in the most extreme horror cinema and, years later, in ‘The substance’.

Because if it is important for something capital ‘Baby Blood’ is to understand horror cinema from France that would arrive a few years later. Films like ‘Inside’, ‘Martyrs’ or ‘High Voltage’ find their visionary and very precedent in ‘Baby Blood’, as overflowing with violence, and with a corrosive message about motherhood. Not for all palates, but if the extreme is yours, you have an appointment with sandungueros babies who feed on blood.

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