This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Let's be realistic.

Excellent, a Must See

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I was looking forward for John carpenter's entry in this excellent series but what a mess this was. I didn't like it at all. This isn't another Halloween (1978) or The Thing (1982) two of his masters pieces. This episode was even a bit boring because nothing happened. What really saved Pro-Life are the effects done by Berger and Nicotero. Dwayne (Ron Perlman) a religious man wants to save his daughter from abortion. She's only 15 years old. But soon at the clinic the doctors come beware that she's being raped only one week earlier and it's already time to give birth. God is telling Dwayne to let the baby live but the baby is made by a demon. What did work is one gunshot that goes into the neck of a youngster. That looked messy but the demon itself was a pure fifties, a man in a rubber suit monster and once the demon baby is born it did remind me of The Thing but again. Nothing else really happens except a lot of discussions going on. Further we do have one nice CGI gunshot in the head but by then it's all too late. This is clearly one of the bad things Carpenter has done. It isn't creepy or doesn't have one element of horror in it. Avoid it, you wont regret it. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

59/100. The main thing about this film that really bothered me through most of it was when the phone lines were cut. Okay, this is made in 2006, so you are telling me none of the dozen or so people in the building didn't have a cell phone to call the police? That old cutting the phone lines routine doesn't work anymore. It worked fine and added suspense to movies from other decades, but not today. As a story it was interesting, a sort of twist on Rosemary's Baby. It can be very unpleasant at times, and if you can get past the plot holes, it's pretty good. The acting is fine, good special effects for the most part. It certainly has it's creepy moments.

Not really very original, since clearly elements of both "Assault on Precinct 13" and "The Thing" are rather obvious. In addition, lots of plot holes get in the way. The effects are alright, but there are some annoying flaws, the most glaring being why no one has a cell phone to call police, after the phone lines are cut? Ron Perlman is in his comfort zone, as the psycho pro-life father, assaulting the abortion clinic where his daughter is being attended to by the rather naive staff. Another weak point in the script is why Perlman continues to torture the doctor, when his daughter is screaming at the top of her lungs just down the hall? "Pro Life" has lots of screaming, but not much meaning. - MERK

An abortion clinic is besieged by an enraged activist and his boys because his pregnant 15 year old daughter wants her unborn demonic child(!)killed before birth.Yep, Dwayne Burcell(Ron Perlman, not overplaying the role, playing his character less intense, and more like a burdened father)has been a nuisance towards the abortion clinic to the point that they got a restraining order against him. A religious man, pro-life, has a pregnant young daughter who wants an abortion..certainly rife with irony and the true meat of this Masters of Horror episode's story. The daughter, Angelique Burcell(Caitlan Wachs), was molested and impregnated by the demon whose hands rose from the earth to pull underground from a swing-set. Dr Alex(Mark Feuerstein)and his nurse/lover Kim(Emmanuelle Vaugier)are the ones Angelique confides in to kill the thing inside her. This episode also has another family with a grumpy father who shows his disgust towards his young daughter rather loudly.A monster movie with social commentary, much like the old days whether it was stopping nuclear testing or catching commies, John Carpenter's mini-film focuses on the issue of murdering an unborn child. I didn't find the story as a whole satisfying, but I liked the idea of having a film about abortion where both sides have their say. But, this episode goes a bit off the rails when Dwayne, believing it's God's will to save his daughter's unborn child(..it was actually a demon whispering to him in prayer), performs a similar abortion procedure on the head of the clinic, Dr. Kiefer(Bill Dow). I found this rather unpleasant exercise a bit over-the-top in the examination of how the child might feel if it were eliminated by the hand of a physician. Not only does this exercise take an insane amount of time(..time he could be spending searching for his daughter), but it paints Dwayne, who seems rather reasonable, into a sociopathic monster. Perhaps that's the point, but it's awfully chest-pounding. Was it really God's will for Dwayne to torture and cruelly administer that procedure on Kiefer making him "see how it felt to be killed the way the unborn infants were." That's an extreme example of how religious folks protesting against abortion must seem to the writers of this episode. There's one murder, Dwayne's weak son kills the father of a family for no apparent reason whatsoever, that should've been left out of the episode..it serves no real purpose other than to show that the sins of a father can influence a son.The monster is quite nifty. Sure it's a demon creature suit with a man inside, but I was proud to see it in this episode. While the gore effects from gun shot wounds were clearly CGI, seeing a good old fashioned monster, not created digitally was a great thrill to this horror fan. The half-human/half-demon baby is obviously modeled somewhat from the spider-head of Carpenter's "The Thing"..it's quite a wild concoction. The CGI effects consist of Dwayne blowing a hole through one victim's skull with brains splattering on the sidewalk, and a shootout resulting in one of Dwayne's sons getting caught in the throat opening a bloody wound. I found the CGI effects underwhelming, but okay..I've seen worse. I'd say this is an entertaining, if flawed, episode in the series, with some great, and not-so-great moments. I do feel the message of the film regarding abortion comes across as muddled..perhaps siding with the pro-choice crowd.