Birth

While cranking out thousands of porn vignettes for her Gamma and Adult Time ventures, producer Bree Mills occasionally creates would-be crossover features, ranging from "Teen Lesbian" to "Grinders". "Birth" is her attempt at a psychological horror movie, but the tedious kitchen-sink movie approach and barely disguised misandry of the final reel make the film anti-entertaining. (Note to Bree: if you want to make a fun genre movie in this vein, watch "I Don't Want to Be Born", a supernatural horror pic starring Joan Collins that I enjoyed at the drive-in five decades ago.)

Flat acting by the bad guy husband Seth Gamble (who seems to appear in every porn movie lately, giving lousy performances) is one of the movie's chief demerits, alongside Bree's inclusion of gonzo elements (a ridiculous nightmare gang bang for the anticlimax late in the pregnancy). Star Casey Calvert overacts when she's not sleepwalking through the central role.

"Bawdy by Gabe" gets credit for excellent SPFX, mainly prosthetics of fat-belly plus merkin pregnancy that are convincing when Casey approaches the finale of giving birth. But a lengthy "explanation" flashback segment at the end, spoon feeding the details of what's REALLY been going on during the film's story (and displaying some soapbox depiction of male villainy) is very groan-inducing filmmaking. All those awful Pure Taboo episodes have clearly gone to Bree's tendency toward hubris.