With: Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphael Coleman, Ty Glaser
Plot: Young, pregnant Lenore Harker (Phillips), leaves university to settle down with her boyfriend and raise their abnormally large baby. The baby eats people.
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I love Larry Cohen's original, and was pleased to see he got a writing credit on this, though it doesn't show. Whereas Cohen used the situation of a monster baby as a sly musing on male and female reactions to miscarriage, this has no sub-text. It's very spare and doesn't show the baby, aside from its hand, until the very end. At first this seems like a sign of good pacing, but when you see the horribly CGI'd face at the end you realise it's probably down to cost issues. It feels much too minor, again probably a budget problem, and its only real benefit is a committed performance from Phillips who really makes you see the sadness at the life she's given up to protect a monster from trouble. Other characters are cardboard cut-outs, there simply to be victims of the baby in scenes lacking in any tension or build up, it's always just the baby (who can move like a ninja) suddenly killing everything in the shot. It's very focused, no needless subplots and only 78 minutes long including credits, but too slight to enjoy even as a mindless horror.
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