I am a huge horror movie fan and maybe the title should have made me wary, but will I ever learn? Here is the plot. A successful young arty couple from the city are holding a dinner party as the wife is pregnant and has just found out she is carrying a girl. Cue first scene that contains lots of smiley bump holding and lullaby music...lol. Tragically, half way through the meal, the wife doesn't feel very well and has a violent miscarriage in the bathroom, and even trips over the blood on the floor to a loud bang, whereby Kane, her husband runs upstairs to see the dreadful scene. The next scene is the wife looking very very derranged in a hospital, attached to a drip, staring at a uterine scan trembling and saying 'Scarring, I can never have.....'. I actually thought the hospital scene was pretty tastfully done as it is completely devesating, and I must have looked very theatrical being escorted through a crowded waiting room in hysterics.
In the next chapter we open to find that they have moved to a quiet house in the country, but it has a terrible history. Several women have died there over the years. They find boxes of little girls toys etc in the cellar. There is even a very tender love-making scene where the wife is very anxious about how her body is and her husband calls her perfect. Huge brownie points there!!!!!
Over the next few weeks crazy things start happening to the wife as they find a woman's skull by the sewerage pipe. She sees several ghosts of angry men yelling and bedragled women, one is carrying a baby and one whose dress is covered in blood as if she has miscarried.
In the next scenes, she receives a phonecall and she gasps and says she is pregnant again! Her husband doesn't seem very happy at all. He then seems to be very tetchy and preoccupied with his work and then descends into being angry and aggressive. The wife's dillusions become worse as she stops taking her pills that she has being taking since her first miscarriage as she is pregnant. She comes out of her appointment and tells her husband that her second pregnancy is very high risk and she is on bedrest. He seems even more aggressive and her ghosty sitings become worse. She flees and tries to walk out but develops terrible cramps and returns home to bed. Finally she sees the miscarrying ghost again and is guided to a diary of a previous woman who was pregnant and was murdered by her angry husband. The wife checks dates and the diary entries match. As her husband is away she calls her best mate who dashes over and locks herself in the house. She thinks she sees a ghost and stabs out with a knife and it happens to be her mate. She thinks a ghost man is after her stabs out again on the balcony, low and behold, it is her now dead husband. She is arrested and the last scene shows her being scanned, there was no baby. She is then sectioned in a cell.
So the upshot is that this woman was driven crazy by her IF to the point that she had a phantom pregnancy. Jesus Christ, why doesn't the media see that these constant portrayals of mad infertile women create stereotypes that people actually believe them. You only need glance at the comments sections of papers like 'The Daily Mail' (whose readership is in the millions) when they write an infertility story to see that people really believe the pictures that the media paint.
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