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I love Ron Perlman. Whether as the bad ass demon ass kicker \u201cHellboy,\u201d or in a long-winded turkey like \u201cDesperation,\u201d there are not many instances where he can lose with me. In \u201cPro-Life\u201d his performance is powerful, and I utterly loved him as the anti-abortion terrorist doing anything to get his daughter back from the clinic. He\u2019s the highlight, here. \u201cPro-Life\u201d drops down on a reality where abortion clinics have armed guards and fences that keep out protestors. Apparently, this is the near future but nonetheless, the whole concept of Carpenter\u2019s installment is to somewhat paint the pro\/anti-abortion issue into a more horrific light.<\/p>\n
If a demonic entity is born from a woman who was raped by a creature still deserving of a future? The plot is goofy, I\u2019ll give you that, but the sheer demented nature of Carpenter\u2019s story is entertaining. Carpenter\u2019s installment is a mixture of \u201cIt\u2019s Alive,\u201d and \u201cRosemary\u2019s Baby\u201d in which a monster is born out of wedlock. But what kind of monster is it? A monster born of sin and protected by Satan? Or love corrupted by a murderous group of anti-abortionists? \u201cPro-Life\u201d is appropriately a twisted take on the war of the views on abortion, and I had fun, mainly because the cast makes this demented concept worth the watch, and worth the discussion in the end. Like, how big is Satan\u2019s dong? And did she enjoy the\u2026? Well, it\u2019s an entertaining entry into a season of highlights.<\/p>\n
Ah, almost like the purposeful rebuttal to \u201cImprint,\u201d this reprise from John Carpenter is an entry either showing the horrors of abortion, or the horrors of having a baby out of ill-intentions. I was never clear on that, really. What is \u201cPro-Life\u201d trying to say? Abortion is bad? Having a baby you don\u2019t want is bad? Can someone clarify this for me? But you have to love the chutzpah behind titling this \u201cJohn Carpenter\u2019s Pro-Life\u201d for the potential singular DVD releases. Egads. As for \u201cPro-Life,\u201d it may hold with it the same stigma \u201cHomecoming\u201d brought with it. It\u2019s a commentary on a very volatile issue, and it\u2019s awfully heavy-handed. But it was clear that \u201cHomecoming\u201d had its message on the left. I wasn\u2019t sure what \u201cPro-Life\u201d was trying to say.<\/p>\n
If it was trying to say anything for that matter. Is the monster a symbol for rape? A result of rape? Was the demonic entity Satan? What were his plans for Angelique and the baby? Why did it appear in a spider-form? What was the whole point? Why did the monster simply take his dead baby and stomp off and not slaughter the bitch who killed it? And, apparently Satan is against abortion too\u2026 okay. Not a lot made sense in this installment, and the writers just don\u2019t seem to know where to go with it. Like the flip-flopping \u201cExorcism of Emily Rose,\u201d this veered in all contexts and commentaries, and accomplished nothing. You have to love John Carpenter. And with \u201cPro-Life\u201d I was considerably mixed on what he had to offer. It\u2019s a heavy handed and awfully blatant commentary on abortion, but it\u2019s also entertaining and the acting is just well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love Ron Perlman. Whether as the bad ass demon ass kicker \u201cHellboy,\u201d or in a long-winded turkey like \u201cDesperation,\u201d there are not many instances where he can lose with me. In \u201cPro-Life\u201d his performance is powerful, and I utterly loved him as the anti-abortion terrorist doing anything to get his daughter back from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[477,617,638,1087,1132],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-horror","tag-m","tag-masters-of-horror","tag-thriller","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}