{"id":411,"date":"2007-11-06T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/411"},"modified":"2007-11-06T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:40:26","slug":"pro-life-2006-john-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/411","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life (2006, John Carpenter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movie starts and I am happy.  Remote women&#8217;s clinic picks up a girl in trouble, then her father, a possibly dangerous anti-abortion religious nut with three gun-happy sons, drives up.  Window rolls down&#8230; it&#8217;s Ron Perlman!  You do not mess with Ron Perlman!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/prolife1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Turns into a precinct\/assault movie, which I have no problem with, but uh oh, where&#8217;s the horror?  Oh, the girl was raped by demons, and her demon baby is about to be born (spoiler: it&#8217;s a flesh-colored spider with a doll head) and nothing can stop that and its demon father will rise up from the ground to claim the baby!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/prolife2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>So, pretty stupid.  I could at least forgive it that, but that twice, twice!, a character (perlman, one son) comes up against the demon in a hallway of the clinic during the assault, gives an uh-oh look, camera cuts to demon looking all demony&#8230; then nothing.  Did that low-rent demon suit not offer enough freedom of movement to take a swipe at a guy&#8217;s head?  Anything?  Anyway, girl shoots her baby and demon wanders off.  Movie manages not to be an adequate comment on abortion, religion, clinics, fanatics, motherhood or demons.<\/p>\n<p>Percussive score written by Carpenter&#8217;s son is the worst movie music I&#8217;ve heard since Goblin was in business.<\/p>\n<p>Movie still gets points for having Ron Perlman in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie starts and I am happy. Remote women&#8217;s clinic picks up a girl in trouble, then her father, a possibly dangerous anti-abortion religious nut with three gun-happy sons, drives up. Window rolls down&#8230; it&#8217;s Ron Perlman! You do not mess with Ron Perlman! Turns into a precinct\/assault movie, which I have no problem with, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,57,56,52],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-horror","tag-john-carpenter","tag-ron-perlman","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}