Baby Blood 4K - Studio Canal Cult classics

[stigdu]

In a surprise bit of news, Alain Robak's horror BABY BLOOD is being released on October 6th 2025 by Studio Canal as part of their Cult Classics label.

According to the BBFC website, it'll be uncut.

https://hmv.com/store/film-tv/4k-ult...ray/baby-blood

Description
Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) works for a traveling circus with her abusive husband. When the circus' new leopard suffers a sudden violent death, a parasitic creature bursts out of the animal's body and crawls up into Yanka's uterus. The parasite demands that Yanka brings it blood, so that it can feed and grow. Soon, Yanka is a killer on the run as she hunts down victims for her new 'baby'. With incredible special effects and boundary-pushing gore, Baby Blood is one of the most underrated body horror films of all time.

Region Code:
Region A,B,C

Duration:
88 minutes

Original Language:
French
Subtitles: English

Extras:

Interactive Menu
Bonus Footage
Commentary: Lee Gambin (film historian) and Jarret Gahan (film critic); Alain Robak and Emmanuelle Escourrou
Interviews: Alain Robak (director); Emmanuelle Escourrou (actor); Dernard Déchet (cinematographer); Jean-François Gallotte (actor); Christian Sinniger (actor)
4 art cards
The Concepts Behind French Horror 'Baby Blood' With Kim Newman
Trailers

[MikeK84]

Blind bought the Kino release of this. Strange movie but not very good. Unintentionally funny.

[bergman864]

I love this movie. It doesn't say if it has HDR or not. Better extras than the nearly nonexistent Kino.

[McCrutchy]

In the database:



It seems like this will be a single-disc release with a separate Blu-ray release. There's no back cover yet, but the Kino is 4K SDR, although I don't remember if any discs from Canal have been 4K SDR, outside of specific exceptions like The Virgin Suicides being SDR in an HDR container.

I don't know the film, but apparently the

[Show spoiler]parasite

is voiced by

[Show spoiler]Sir Gary Oldman

in the English dub track. If that's not included, no big deal, but it would be fun to sample the dub for that after seeing the film.

Interestingly, I can't find any evidence of a French release, yet. But I'm pleased with the selection of extras, including the commentary with Robak and Escourrou.

[Hiruko]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

In the database:


Interestingly, I can't find any evidence of a French release, yet. But I'm pleased with the selection of extras, including the commentary with Robak and Escourrou.

It doesn't have a blu-ray in France yet, I have the film on DVD and I've been waiting a long time for an upgrade.
I have strong memories of this film, in my opinion it's very solid and there is a nice slate of extras on this disc too, I'll be happy to get this

[McCrutchy]

I've just seen that Canal is also doing The Hellbenders on the same day, but apparently only on Blu-ray:



That was a title also licensed from Canal and released in 4K SDR by Kino, albeit on a double-feature disc:



so perhaps this bolsters the idea that Canal have added some kind of HDR grade to Baby Blood.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

It seems like this will be a single-disc release with a separate Blu-ray release. There's no back cover yet, but the Kino is 4K SDR, although I don't remember if any discs from Canal have been 4K SDR, outside of specific exceptions like The Virgin Suicides being SDR in an HDR container.

Didn't Kino obtain the 4K SDR restoration from Studio Canal?

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Didn't Kino obtain the 4K SDR restoration from Studio Canal?

It looks like it, the Kino has a StudioCanal logo on the back cover. I just don't believe that Canal themselves have released any 4K UHD discs without HDR, so I'm wondering if they've done an HDR grade in the year since the Kino edition.

[ElGranBluchadore]

Ooh, nice. One to add.

[Nitroes]

BABY BLOOD Trailer - YouTube

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