| Mix a little bit of Night Of The Living Dead with not so subtle nods to Alien an you have this Wong Jing produced b-movie. Now, I'm a fan of hokey movies, preferably those from Hong Kong that manages to be very energetic and creative on modest budgets. The Demon's Baby should've come out at least 4 years earlier though because then, this is my feeling anyway, the filmmakers could've made sure that the audience would've had a good time at least. Instead, in 1998, the film has virtually no spark or fun. The quote unquote horror happens quite late in the film and while there's plenty of imagery to win us over with, it's clear that no one really had it in them to assault the audience like a director would've earlier in the 90s. The cast look lifeless but Anthony Wong's cameo is fun for the moment. Too bad the movie wasn't just that.
As a sidenote, The Demon's Baby actually could've benefited from the Wong Jing humour but it seems, in 1998 anyway, that he was trying to produce straight, serious movies. In this case, it doesn't really work and another example is A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II produced the same year. |
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