By David Dent
Poor Adam (Brandon Scott) has hit a bit of a wall. A reasonably successful horror script writer, his latest, for a film called ‘The Blackest Moon’, has just been ripped apart on a movie podcast, and he despairs both for what he terms “unchecked, uninformed criticism” and for a creative spark. His partner Kate (Krsy Fox), who one senses supports them both financially, is sympathetic.
But things change when Adam has a vision of Kate being knifed to death in her bed by a sinister guy with a baby mask; mercifully it’s just a dream, but he feels there might be some mileage in working up the ‘Big Baby’ serial killer idea, although he’s never written a slasher script before. More disturbingly, the morning after the dream he finds their bed sheets ripped by what looks like a large blade.
This is the jumping-off point for the curiously named Spider One’s latest horror film (real name Michael David Cummings and brother of Rob Zombie) following his well-received chiller Little Bites from a year earlier. Arguably Big Baby is stronger as a relationship-in-peril drama than a slasher, partly because the bond between Adam and his creation remains unfocussed. The writer’s vision crosses over from the page to the real world with a mission; Adam needs to script the murder of all those responsible for making BB what he has become, and even though Adam has supposedly created the killer’s origin story, people start dying in real life, following the pattern of the script.
Scott and Fox are initially believable as the couple whose relationship flounders, less so as things move to a climax; this is also one movie where less gore might have been favourable to preserve the mystery of the piece, although the carnage does at least underline that Adam had one great slasher script in him.
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