John meets with Mike in his holding cell.
As Anna walks away with John, Mike flips out and tries to run after them, but the cops pull him away. Anna fears that she has no place else to go, but John says she can stay with him and Laura. Anna is sitting in the car with blood on her face. John goes by Mike's house to find the police there. The Taylors receive a distressing phone call. John later takes Anna home and finds Mike there looking unhappy to see them together.
After taking three home tests, Laura calls John to excitedly tell him that Anna is pregnant with their baby.Īnna goes to John's job so he can take her to a doctors appointment since Mike didn't take her. The Taylors invite Anna and her boyfriend Mike Mitchell (Theo Rossi) over for dinner one night.Īnna undergoes the procedure to be impregnated. John and Laura get to know Anna, finding her to be pleasant and charming. Laura likes what she sees from Anna, and she chooses her. They think they've found the answer to their prayers in Anna Walsh (Jaz Sinclair), a young woman who volunteers to be a surrogate for the two of them. They both want a child, but have been unsuccessful in conceiving following several miscarriages. John Taylor (Morris Chestnut) is a lawyer on the verge of landing a big case, while his wife Laura (Regina Hall) works around the country securing clients of her own. Eben'sīasement lovenest/workshop is spooky enough to earn a prominent spot in the same real estate guides featuring the houses from PSYCHO, DERANGED, and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.(Graphic violence, extreme profanity, sexual situations.NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jeremy
Riddled with plot flaws, the film is often more stomach-churning than riveting, but Dr. Instead of catching the audience off-guard, too much time is wasted on Audrey's search for evidence by computer, and too much energy is expended on her therapy/interrogation sessions with Jordan. Nor is this movie's suspense quotient aided by the screenplay's failure to weave in an effective confrontation between Walker and antagonist Sheen.
Freed from their dad's malevolence, the twins areĪlthough the fetching Walker is persuasive as a sensitive professional battling personal demons while stepping over a minefield of male egos, this one-woman manhunt isn't structured with enough clarity nor directed with enough cold, clammy atmosphere to steamroll an audience into accepting aĭenouement that literally grafts THE HANDS OF ORLAC onto a police procedural yarn. Unable to slip through a window quickly enough, the detective sets fire to the maniac with chemicals and then shoots him. After the freaked-out captive rushes out, Audrey confronts Dr. Without back-up in the basement of the fortress-like Eben home, Audrey discovers the mad doctor's latest hysterical victim and Jordan's twin Jennifer, who inhabits theĬellar in an incestuous relationship with her father. When Jordan's mother died giving birth to his twin sister Jennifer Lynn, his surgeon father went bonkers and tried to keepĪlive the spirit of his pianist wife by grafting hands from reluctant child donors onto the deformed extremities of his daughter. Eben (Ron Perlman), she has pieced together an horrific explanation for the unsolved mutilation-slayings. Although Speckett is apprehended, the real lunatic strikes again by nabbing a pre-teen girl.īy the time Audrey breaks into the house of Jordan's father, Dr. (Christopher Doyle) as the possible perpetrator. Gaining Jordan's trust, Audrey also sifts through old police videos that help pinpoint convicted molester Speckett Butting heads with Chief Swaggert (Martin Sheen) over protocol, Audreyĭrops by the State Psychiatric Hospital to interview feral child Jordan (Tara Subkoff) who was abandoned at the age of seven after his hands were dismembered and reattached.
Resented by macho local cops when she's imported to profile their most wanted serial killer, high-strung Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) plunges into the bizarre homicide case while suppressing her own legacy of childhood abuse.
The key to a series of mutilation murders of youngsters in New Orleans. This sporadically creepy dip into psychosis concerns an androgynous mute child who holds If this film is not in a league with its obvious inspiration, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, at least it is not an inept rip-off like some other straight-to-video titles (witness SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS).