{"id":101377,"date":"2020-10-30T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:16:40","slug":"the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"#The 10 Most Harrowing Horror Movie Pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37bed841e02\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37bed841e02\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/#10_A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_5_The_Dream_Child_1989\" >10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/#9_Beyond_The_Door_1974\" >9. Beyond The Door (1974)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/#8_Eraserhead_1977\" >8. Eraserhead (1977)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/#7_The_Seventh_Sign_1988\" >7. The Seventh Sign (1988)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-most-harrowing-horror-movie-pregnancies\/#6_The_House_of_the_Devil_2009\" >6. The House of the Devil (2009)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The 10 Most Harrowing Horror Movie Pregnancies<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em>October is defined in Webster\u2019s Dictionary as \u201c31 days of horror.\u201d Don\u2019t bother looking it up; it\u2019s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we\u2019ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about the most harrowing horror movie pregnancies is part of our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <strong>31 Days of Horror Lists<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Pregnancy: it\u2019s the thing that made us, yet it\u2019s also a topic that\u2019s plagued by taboos, frequently politicized, and for roughly half the population, shrouded in unknowable mystery. It\u2019s also, despite the pastel-hued Instagram posts that will try to convince you otherwise, bloody and gross and alien and primal.<\/p>\n<p>All of this makes pregnancy a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> that naturally fits well with horror movies. What happens when a parent doesn\u2019t feel a connection to their child, or can\u2019t keep their kid safe? What if outside forces take control of a woman\u2019s body? The often-unspoken anxieties that go hand-in-hand with human reproduction have been channeled through the safely metaphorical conduit of horror for decades, resulting in films that expose tough truths and reveal deep-seated fears.<\/p>\n<p>Here are ten films that do an excellent job making the magic of giving life look horrific\u2026 it\u2019s the harrowing horror movie pregnancies as voted on by Brad Gullickson, Chris Coffel,\u00a0Kieran Fisher, Rob Hunter, Meg Shields, Anna Swanson, Jacob Trussell, and yours truly.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"10_A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_5_The_Dream_Child_1989\"><\/span>10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-357866\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dream-Child.jpg\" alt=\"Dream Child\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dream-Child.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dream-Child-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dream-Child-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dream-Child-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some critics would have you believe that the <em>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> franchise gets sillier in its later installments. However, <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child<\/em> set out to address issues such as abortion and teen pregnancy, so it can\u2019t be accused of being devoid of ideas or not confronting hot-button topics.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, this is one of the more mature movies of the bunch. But the story is also a testament to Freddy Krueger\u2019s never-die attitude, as he uses a pregnant woman\u2019s baby\u2019s dreams to continue his murderous rampage. Of course, it\u2019s only a matter of time until Baby Freddy makes an appearance, and he\u2019s as cute as a button. (Kieran Fisher)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_Beyond_The_Door_1974\"><\/span>9. Beyond The Door (1974)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-357867 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Beyond-the-Door.jpg\" alt=\"horror movie pregnancy Beyond The Door\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Beyond-the-Door.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Beyond-the-Door-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Beyond-the-Door-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Beyond-the-Door-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you ever watched <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em> and thought, \u201cShit, man, I really wish this had the energy of <em>The Exorcist<\/em>,\u201d then do I have a movie for you. A shlockbuster before the term was invented, <strong>Ovidio G. Assonitis<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Beyond the Door<\/em> mashes up two of the finest horror films in such a way that it would almost become an incoherent mess if it wasn\u2019t held together by Juliet Mills\u2019 committed performance as a pregnant woman possessed by the spawn of Satan growing in her belly.<\/p>\n<p>The film veered so close to William Friedkin\u2019s classic that Warner Brothers actually sued the producers of <em>Beyond the Door<\/em>, who eventually settled five years later. I\u2019d like to believe that Assonitis was successful in mitigating the illegality of his movie by pointing out that the film is brazenly a parody of <em>The Exorcist<\/em>, featuring a twelve-year-old girl who doesn\u2019t need Satan\u2019s help to have the mouth of a sailor and her little brother who has a heavy addiction to slurping Campbell\u2019s Pea Soup like it was a Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing can accurately describe how fucking crazy this film is, but if you want a kaleidoscopic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> into the world of 1970s Italian knock-offs, then <em>Beyond the Door<\/em> is required viewing. (Jacob Trussell)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8_Eraserhead_1977\"><\/span>8. Eraserhead (1977)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-357868\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Eraserhead-1.jpg\" alt=\"Eraserhead\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Eraserhead-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Eraserhead-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Eraserhead-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Eraserhead-1-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The pregnancy plot in David Lynch\u2019s experimental debut feature would almost be absurdly funny if it wasn\u2019t also a source of tremendous existential dread. In the film, a man named Henry (Jack Nance) has an unusual dinner with his girlfriend Mary (Charlotte Stewart), which ends with the revelation that Mary had a child\u2026 or\u2026 something child-like. This is unusual for many reasons, one of them being that traditional pregnancy was never mentioned, with a surreal and cosmic opening scene standing in for conception.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the couple moves in together to take care of the deformed being, which looks nothing like a human but a bit like an unformed alien fetus swaddled in bandages. At first, this all seems like a strange and detached artistic exercise on Lynch\u2019s part, but when things begin to go grotesquely wrong with the creature, <em>Eraserhead<\/em> invokes a sense of inexplicable parental protectiveness mingled with disgust. Though pregnancy itself isn\u2019t examined closely, <em>Eraserhead<\/em> is a fever dream that\u2019s overwhelmed by palpable anxiety around the topic of accidental parenthood. (Valerie Ettenhofer)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_The_Seventh_Sign_1988\"><\/span>7. The Seventh Sign (1988)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-357869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Seventh-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"The Seventh Sign horror movie pregnancy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Seventh-Sign.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Seventh-Sign-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Seventh-Sign-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Seventh-Sign-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you make a face at any film\u2019s inclusion on this list it will probably be this underappreciated tale of horror on a biblically apocalyptic level. I\u2019ve been a fan since its release in the late 80s, and while it\u2019s never quite found the reappraisal it deserves \u2014 either from audiences or critics \u2014 it delivers when it comes to featuring a harrowing pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Demi Moore plays Abby, a young pregnant woman whose cynical view on life is shaken by a confluence of events including the arrival of a man (J\u00fcrgen Prochnow) who just might be Jesus Christ. Disasters, both natural and supernaturally ordained, ravage the planet and an undeserving human species, and only Abby holds the key to our salvation. It\u2019s an appealingly emotional sentiment confirming that only we can save ourselves\u2026 from ourselves. (Rob Hunter)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_The_House_of_the_Devil_2009\"><\/span>6. The House of the Devil (2009)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-357870\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/House-of-the-Devil.jpg\" alt=\"House Of The Devil\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/House-of-the-Devil.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/House-of-the-Devil-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/House-of-the-Devil-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/House-of-the-Devil-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ti West<\/strong>\u2019s atmospheric, slow-burn chamber piece about a babysitter in the \u201880s doesn\u2019t advertise itself as pregnancy horror, but the all-in third act takes it to some unexpected places with a final stop at motherhood. <em>The House of the Devil<\/em> follows Samantha (Jocelin Donahue), a college student who takes a babysitting job in a creepy mansion to make ends meet. By the end of the night, Sam has become pregnant by way of a forced cult ritual.<\/p>\n<p>On one level, West\u2019s movie is a stylish, deftly-made throwback that offers homage to several genre classics. On another, it\u2019s a harrowing film about a trusting young woman who\u2019s manipulated into increasingly uncomfortable situations, culminating in an unwanted pregnancy. <em>The House of The Devil<\/em> might not be that deep on purpose, but by treading the hallowed ground of <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby,<\/em> it highlights horror\u2019s long legacy of provocative takes on reproductive narratives. 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