Lauren LaVera is back and being terrorized by a very different kind of demonic force in The Fetus. LaVera leads the cast of the horror movie as Alessa, a woman who is shocked to learn she’s pregnant and, with her boyfriend, begins investigating the source of her pregnancy, which turns out to be of a demonic origin.
The first trailer for The Fetus looks to be striving for a wild and fresh take on the Rosemary’s Baby formula by actually establishing that the baby at the heart of the story is of a demonic nature. The trailer shows Alessa and her boyfriend Chris heading to her father’s isolated home in the hopes of getting help determining how to proceed with the pregnancy. However, things take a dark turn when they discover that Maddox, Alessa’s father, may not be as benevolent as they hoped, and that something residing inside Alessa is actually demonic.
The trailer reveals that Alessa has to feed the demonic entity living inside her by random victims in order to prevent it from killing her, all while they grapple with what to do with the entity living in her. The trailer also hints that Maddox may have something to do with Alessa’s situation, telling her that he thought she would be able to grow up normally.
LaVera is well on her way to continuing her streak in the blood-soaked horror genre, having recently returned to her star-making franchise with Terrifier 3. The promise of gory practical effects for the demonic baby in The Fetus harkens back to her time as Sienna Shaw.
The Fetus trailer has given me a lot of hope for the movie’s potential, and writer/director Joe Lam has stated that his intention is to offer a “thought-provoking pro-choice/pro-life debate” through the movie’s story. With LaVera in the lead role, the trailer has me quite intrigued as to her role in the film, and if this proves to be true in the film, it can act as a great showcase of the range she has in her acting talents and open doors for her to expand both within and outside of the horror genre.
