Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Smoreni Zmaj A pregnant girl arrives at the abortion clinic and insists that her pregnancy is terminated immediately. Soon after arrives her pro-life father, a religious fanatic, accompanied by her older brothers, and attacks the clinic to save his grandchild. The film begins as a redneck drama, but soon turns into a supernatural horror, in John Carpenter's recognizable style. A good story, convincing atmosphere, striking music and decent acting, and if they just refrained from explicitly portraying the "baby" and her father, this would be a solid seven. But in the end they just had to ruin it with well-done, but completely ridiculous and unconvincing monsters and replace eerie tension with "wtf is this crap" moment.5,5/10

Bjorn (ODDBear) Well well well. As good as John Carpenter's season 1 outing in "Masters of Horror" was, this is the complete opposite. He certainly proved he was still a master of horror with "Cigarette Burns" but "Pro-Life" is perhaps the worst I have seen from him.It's stupid, totally devoid of creepy atmosphere and tension and it overstays it's welcome, despite the less-than-an-hour running time. The script is nonsense, the characters are irritable and un-appealing and the conclusion is beyond absurd.And for those suckers who actually bought the DVD (one of them being me); did you see how Carpenter describes the film? He's actually proud of it and he talks about it as his best work for a long time, and he praises the script. And in the commentary track, where he notices an obvious screw up that made it to the final cut, he just says he didn't feel it essential to rectify the mistake and he just let it be there. I fear the old master has completely lost his touch. I sincerely hope I'm proved wrong.I want to leave on a positive note and mention that the creature effects are awesome, though. Technically speaking, this film is top notch, with effective lighting schemes and make up effects.

Treeman222 What happened to you Johnny-boy? John Carpenter never used to rely on special effects (and bad ones at that) to make things entertaining. He used them judiciously to add to the story, but not to fall back on because there is nothing else in the script. The effects in this are terrible, ranging from lame CGI (added in at the last minute to "pump-up" some of the gore) to a cheesy guy-in-a-rubber-suit demon. Gah.Remember Prince of Darkness, John? The huge black hand - the only part that we see of the Anti-Christ - that was scarier than anything in Pro-Life. Much. much more frightening than a rubber monster. I realize that if you just had a big, shadowy figure roaming the halls in Pro-Life, many viewers would think it was a cop-out, but your fans wouldn't. Instead, most of us probably think that showing us everything was the cop-out. Whatever your next budget is, cut it in half so you make a good movie.

huh_oh_i_c MUCHO SPOILERSReading the comments I am reminded what an utterly weird country the USA is. The most socially backward and most technically advanced of all the rich countries, Only in such a F'ed up place, this TV movie could be viewed as controversial.In general, the anti-abortion crowd gets a bad deal here, and rightly so. By calling it Pro-Life, and then paint the pro-lifers in a one dimensional gun toting and gun-using kinda way, Carpenter made a firm and sardonic statement against those who think that they have a God given right to kill doctors who work in abortion clinics. Aside from the fact that it has been scientifically, peer-reviewed proved, that abortion is responsible for the drop in the crime-rate, abortion continues to be not murder, even the USA!! According to the USA supreme court, it STILL is legal, but yes, we can wonder for how long.But the ultimate joke on the bible-thumping killers is played when the the socallled voice of God that has been speaking to the fanatic is actually Satan and the baby is some sort of spider-monster. The message is as clear as it is crude: anti-abortionists are instruments of the DEVIL masquerading as christians ...