There is no one more dangerous to deal with than a woman who has had her child taken from her. Disagree with me all you want, but unless you’re a parent, it’s something you can never understand. The bond between mother and baby is something that is hard to separate. When you’re a parent, there is a sixth sense that both parents develop that links them with their newborn baby. It’s hard to explain, but I have experienced it on several occasions when my children were born. I can remember walking into the hospital the second day my oldest daughter was born. The nursery was to my left about a hundred feet down the hallway. I heard a baby screaming when I got the elevator. I didn’t bother going to my wife’s room right away. Instead I went to the nursery and told the nurse my baby is the one that is crying. I was right. I didn’t even see my daughter crying, I just knew, like she was calling out to me. Needless to say, I took her to my wife for feeding and that sixth sense is something you experience time and time again with your kids. But it is more so between mother and child.
Imagine being a pregnant woman and waking up in a bathtub full of ice and finding that it’s not your kidney that has been removed, but your unborn child. Such is the case with this film. The Clinic.
A couple is driving though the desert on their way to spend Christmas with family. The woman is pregnant. They stop at a motel for the night. All is fine, so the man decides to take a walk. When he comes back, his fiancée is gone. Knowing that the hotel manger has an interest in her, the man goes after the manager, only to be arrested by the local sheriff. He soon gets away and finds out the truth, which is that the pregnant woman was kidnapped and taken to a makeshift clinic in the middle of nowhere. The baby ripped from the womb. The mother meets up with several other women who have suffered the same fate. They have to figure out who did this to them and where their babies are. However, there is a twist that women don’t expect. Only one woman will be able to know who her child is. They will have to kill one another to learn the truth of which baby is theirs and who is behind this sinister act.
The story is a bit all over the place, the plot is slow. But you know what? I really liked this film. The ending has multiple twists that you don’t see coming and it makes up for any flaws the film has. The film really comes together at the end and for once I can say that a horror film did not end in a stupid and unpredictable way. It just got better and better.
The DVD has no special features on it. But don’t let that stop you from picking up this one. The film has its ups and downs, but the way in which it comes to closure makes it all worth the while. This is a film that has a real feel to it. This is a realistic horror film. One that I think to which parents, especially mothers, will be able to relate. I highly recommend this one.
– Horror Bob
- Interview with J.R. Bookwalter - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Andrew J. Rausch - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Rick Popko and Dan West - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actor Jason Behr, Plus Skinwalkers Press Coverage - January 22, 2015
