CAMBION VS IT'S ALIVE

 Since I wrote my #screenplay CAMBION many people referred to a 1970's movie I had never seen titled "It's alive."

I finally watched it yesterday...

The least I can say is that 

"It's alive" is very very different from CAMBION 

First of all, the plot has absolutely nothing to do with it (is there any plot at all in it's alive?)

You get to see the baby from the start  in my script. The lead character is a single mother with financial issues during the first covid lock down who is sexually and financially harassed by an unscrupulous landlord who wants to abuse her in every possible way.

The young woman becomes asexually pregnant...and gives birth to a baby who needs blood and human flesh to survive and whose prey are sexual predators...A need fueled by the aggression his mother was victim of...

The whole plot is based on what a mother would do out of love for her child. Cambion needs human preys and his mother has to provide him with this food for him to live...Which she will do every night, ridding the world of sexual predators and thus killing two birds with one stone.

Cambion is not deformed, not strange except for his need for human flesh.

And that's what completely baffles us.

Born to protect his mother as if a dark part in her that wanted to stop being the victim had created him.

Hot topics such as sexual harassment, the impunity of rapists, abuse of power and racism are also explored.

The characters are much more deeper than they were in "It's Alive".

The scenes are much more intense.

The idea came to me after re-watching ROSEMARY'S BABY which is one of my favorite horror movies.

I wondered what Rosemary will have to do out of love for her son what this child, the prince of darkness child will do and I had this vision of the character walking her son in a black baby carriage in search of preys.

Finally CAMBION explores the hypothesis of the reversal of the patriarchal world in favor of a feminine world.

More than a horror film, CAMBION will leave its mark and keep haunting you after its viewing.

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