PROGENY

Sherry cannot have children and her husband becomes convinced he is sterile. One day the girl discovers she is pregnant, but here the first problems begin. From the ultrasounds, the fetus seems deformed and Sherry is gripped by a terrible premonition: she remembers having had a terrifying nightmare in which she was fertilized by some alien beings... Distributed in Italy only for the home-video market and rarely broadcast on television, "Progeny" is a fantasy-horror directed by specialist Yuzna ("Society", "The Dentist"). A sort of "Rosemary's Baby" in a modern version that plays on the terror and anguish towards what is not known and the dilemma of a woman torn between the repulsion of having in her womb a non-human, or in any case "different" being, and the desire to become a mother. As already happened with "Society", Yuzna directs a horror that does not limit itself to the "ludic" aspect but seeks to address deeper themes; the result is satisfying. In the cast, Arnold Vosloo, the Imhotep of "The Mummy".