Main cast: Rosie Moss (Makayla Galiston), Antoine Perry (Eric Galiston), Laurine Price (Cherise), Cole Gerdes (Dr Zekeny), and Melanie Haynes (Ola)
Director: Reed Shusterman
Eric and Makayla Galiston want children, but after four miscarriages and numerous hours of couples therapy, she just wants to move on now. She doesn’t want to keep trying and having both her heart and her body broken in the process. Of course, since Eric doesn’t have to personally carrying a child only to lose it later, he’s all come on baby, they will succeed one day.
She is not happy, as she is currently working two shifts to help pay off the last round of IVF, her scars from that round haven’t faded yet, and the man is now pushing for them to try again. She vents her frustrations to her friend Cherise, who shares that Cherise’s cousin manages to conceive with the help of a group called the Gravida Foundation—even after said cousin has had a hysterectomy.
Well, with nothing to lose from trying this option, she tells Eric that this is the last time for her. If they still couldn’t have a child after this, they just have to move on because she doesn’t want to keep trying anymore.
Naturally, the Foundation is not the usual friendly neighborhood doula service, since this movie is called Blood Born.
Yes, this is the kind of movie any sane, reasonable person will watch when they are ill and stuck in bed for the most of the day. What can I say, it’s on my streaming service and I just have to sit back and watch without working my brain too much.
Well, I should say that yes, a baby, a demonic one but still, is killed in this movie. However, the hurt on my brain cells is likely more considerable, as the parade of imbecile behavior just won’t stop coming.
Make no mistake, Melanie Haynes is solid here as this affable, friendly doula that can keep the sweetest smile on her face and assure a loser that the poor sod will be fine even as her accomplices drag the poor sod to a terrible end. However, her performance is wasted as her character is played off against imbeciles.
I know they are desperate, but Makayla and Eric never blink an eye when they are asked to do increasingly bizarre things like adding their blood to the paint in order to paint the baby’s room red, sacrifice a chicken, etc. The fact that Ola and the Foundation are doing all this for free should be a red flag in itself, but when Ola starts saying things like the pregnancy will be completed in one week and they are like, okay… I don’t know. I’m sure people that are desperate may see or hear what they want to hear, but Eric and Makayla come off as a really dumb.
Also, I don’t know if this had been the director-cum-screenwriter’s intention, but I love how Eric pushed for Makayla’s pregnancy, only to start judging her ability to be a mother and even trying to get her to miscarry only after he becomes genuinely dragged into being more than the sperm donor urging the poor wife to subject her body over and over to carrying a baby only to lose it later. It also doesn’t help that this fellow comes off even dumber than his wife, as at least the wife has the excuse of pregnancy hormones clouding her judgment. This guy is just an imbecile of the first order.
Cherise is also pretty idiotic. Rushing headlong into danger and then standing there, instead of fleeing, seems to be the way she likes her life to go.
At any rate, this movie could have been a thought provoking statement about infertility, miscarriage, asshole husbands that think pregnancy is simple just like that, and what not, but not in the way it currently is. This one is movie powered by stupidity all the way to the finish line, and poor Ola deserves a better group of victims to work her magic on.
