Wow! Such a good movie.

Sorry, this movie sucks

Simply Perfect

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I was looking forward for John carpenter's entry in this excellent series but what a mess this was. I didn't like it at all. This isn't another Halloween (1978) or The Thing (1982) two of his masters pieces. This episode was even a bit boring because nothing happened. What really saved Pro-Life are the effects done by Berger and Nicotero. Dwayne (Ron Perlman) a religious man wants to save his daughter from abortion. She's only 15 years old. But soon at the clinic the doctors come beware that she's being raped only one week earlier and it's already time to give birth. God is telling Dwayne to let the baby live but the baby is made by a demon. What did work is one gunshot that goes into the neck of a youngster. That looked messy but the demon itself was a pure fifties, a man in a rubber suit monster and once the demon baby is born it did remind me of The Thing but again. Nothing else really happens except a lot of discussions going on. Further we do have one nice CGI gunshot in the head but by then it's all too late. This is clearly one of the bad things Carpenter has done. It isn't creepy or doesn't have one element of horror in it. Avoid it, you wont regret it. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

The second John Carpenter episode in the series is pretty good if clearly a lesser achievement than his previous one, CIGARETTE BURNS (2005), which had been one of the very best. Still, for all the genre felicities and competent acting (especially mismatched father Ron Perlman and daughter Caitlin Wachs) on display here, the overall impression remains that of being a disparate collage of earlier and much superior movies like ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968; the demon impregnating a human being), LEGEND (1985; the look of the demon is virtually identical to Tim Curry's Darkness), as well as Carpenter's own ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976; the besieged institution i.e. abortion clinic) and THE THING (1982; the hybrid look of the monster infant). As with most contemporary horror fare, there is much unnecessary splatter/gore effects but these strike one as ludicrous (such as when a brain is blown off merely from a hand-gun bullet)! At least, Carpenter's son Cody provides an effectively subtle, piano-led score a' la his father's classic theme for HALLOWEEN (1978).

MUCHO SPOILERSReading the comments I am reminded what an utterly weird country the USA is. The most socially backward and most technically advanced of all the rich countries, Only in such a F'ed up place, this TV movie could be viewed as controversial.In general, the anti-abortion crowd gets a bad deal here, and rightly so. By calling it Pro-Life, and then paint the pro-lifers in a one dimensional gun toting and gun-using kinda way, Carpenter made a firm and sardonic statement against those who think that they have a God given right to kill doctors who work in abortion clinics. Aside from the fact that it has been scientifically, peer-reviewed proved, that abortion is responsible for the drop in the crime-rate, abortion continues to be not murder, even the USA!! According to the USA supreme court, it STILL is legal, but yes, we can wonder for how long.But the ultimate joke on the bible-thumping killers is played when the the socallled voice of God that has been speaking to the fanatic is actually Satan and the baby is some sort of spider-monster. The message is as clear as it is crude: anti-abortionists are instruments of the DEVIL masquerading as christians ...

I have to say as being a fan of the man who created Halloween/The Fog/Christine/The Thing - probably his best films.Then you got this POS. I can't logically think he put any effort at all into this like he did with Cigarette Burns. At least his son made a decent soundtrack.You have to look at this from the standpoint that it didn't seem like a movie. It looked as if someone else directed it for one thing. I won't believe Carpenter put any effort into this at all.I was just listening to his old school H2/H3/The Fog soundtrack and it was awesome, especially for the times.He was using a style that no one had and it worked so well for his films.