This has been unavailable through Netflix for years, which is a damn shame. I got it off a list of the 100 best horror movies ever made. I don't think it was in the top ten but it's been so long I don't remember. Sarah (Alysson Paradis) and her unborn baby survived a car crash that killed her husband four months ago. Now, at Christmas, she is unable to look forward to the immanent birth of her child and instead just wants to be left alone. Then a mysterious woman (Beatrice Dalle) shows up at her house in the middle of the night knowing way too much about Sarah and demanding entry. Sarah calls the cops, who are overstretched because of immigration-related riots happening downtown, who send a pair over to do a cursory search. But the woman is not to be defeated so easily. She feels she is owed a debt and means to collect Sarah's child as payment.
This isn't based on a singular event but there was a rather famous case in America a year before this was released where a woman stalked another to murder her and steal her unborn baby. I looked up the particulars on Wikipedia and it turns out this is common enough to get its own page under Fetal Abduction. I'm pretty sure the movie is supposed to be a metaphor for immigrants or something, but I'm just going to go ahead and say it's Based on True Events. Which is always scarier than swamp monsters or sentient pumpkin people.
Like it's not terrifying enough to be pregnant, now you have to worry about crazy bitches trying to cut you open with a pair of kitchen scissors. (Sleep tight!)
This is a total gorefest, too, so if that sort of thing bothers you just keep walking. There is nothing here for you. Even I thought it was a little gratuitous towards the end. Otherwise, this is a pretty standard home invasion film with a nice, tense atmosphere throughout.
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