Reviews

I saw this film on DVD thanks to Mondo Macabro, the front of the cover declared the film to be a gore fest as did the blurb at the back, and even though it did have some bloody moments, it was no more gory than say , the Evil Dead or Friday the 13th , the story tells of a pregnant girl who has hit hard times and doesnt particularly want the child , she is given a very generous offer by a wealthy couple to stay with them in luxury and then hand the baby over and get generously paid , the dream becomes a nightmare as she realises that the family are Aswang , a breed of Filipino vampire with a taste for babies in or out of the womb, they eat the babies with their huge snake like tongues, the story plods along at a slow pace and you know thats the case when you start thinking what shopping you have to get tomorrow, a one off watch type movie

I have a soft spot ( between my ears ) for this movie, I read about it in a vampire movie guide by Stephen Jones some 30 odd years ago , and even though the review wasn't positive, I still wanted to see it , well was it worth the wait? Yes for me it was , a vampire reverend wants to continue his family line which has been weakened by incest , and hunts down anyone who is distantly related to him, he kidnaps a pregnant long lost relative in the hope that the baby will continue the family line, chuck in a sad hunchback , some green faced lady ghouls , a shy vampire wife who is handy with a set of knitting needles and some tomato sauce gore and some ropey acting and you have a film that's as entertaining as it is amateurish ( part of its charm) think Acorn antiques and Dracula (1931).

I finished watching this after a TV channel in the UK showed it , sadly, for me, it lacked the spark of the TV series , Ms Fisher herself seemed different somehow and the whole thing seemed to be partly political and looked cheap , a real shame