How far would a Mother go, to get her child safely home, if home...were another planet? On the last day of the 20th Century, a story of motherly love and extreme violence.
Spoof science fiction. An alien mother and her child are pursued across England by a bunch of incompetent government agents and take refuge in a house full of vampires. Homage back to the camp tone of British directors of the 1970's such as Ken Russell, (The Lair Of The White Worm), Robert Fuest, (Dr Phibes Rises Again), and Joe McGrath, (The Magic Christian). Distributed by Troma in the U.S., it contains violence, nudity and exploding bagpipes.—Anonymous
December 31, 1999, the Last Day of the 20th Century8:10 a.m.: Accompanied only by her @9-year old daughter, Monique, apregnant Helene [Francesca Manning] kills a badguy posing as a room service attendantand takes his gun. She and Monique [Rebecca Stirling] then escape into the Englishcountryside.
11:15 a.m.: Another woman who looks a lot like Helene (tall with longblonde hair and wearing sunglasses) and who is accompanied by her @9-yearold son also wanders the English countryside. They purchase a horse from alecherous farmer and ride off together. They come upon Helene and Moniqueand are welcomed with hugs and invited to share their campfire. Aftervisiting for a while, the second woman and her son ride off on their horseand are suddenly open-fired upon by a group of badguys led by cold-heartedMichael Jouvet [Glyn Whiteside]. Although they fight galantly, both mother and son arekilled. [At this point, the face of a screaming alien appears, and the audiencegets the first hint that the dead woman and boy may not be of this earth.]
2:25 p.m.: Jouvet is not happy with his troops. They have not yet beenable to catch up with and kill Helene and Monique.
7:35 p.m.: The sun has gone down and "vampires" Vickie [Vanessa Stevens]and Marie [Catherine Whitaker] aregetting dressed while Tom [Glyn Whiteside] and Mina [Karen Reay] are upstairsin bed. James [Tony Hunt], who isdressed as Dracula, and his wife Rachael [Jane Sorensen] are throwing a millenium party.The plan is to hold a seance at midnight. They have even invited psychicElizabeth [Penelope Dudley], who is currently taking a bath. James, horny as always, locksRachael downstairs and is trying to get Vickie to have sex with him whenElizabeth suddenly gets a feeling that danger is approaching. "Don't openthe front door," she screams while getting out of the tub. Too late.Helene breaks in the front door and shoots James several times in thechest, instantly killing "Dracula".
10:25 p.m.: While Helene holds everyone at gunpoint, Elizabeth attempts totalk with her, but Helene speaks only French. Fortunately, Vickie cantranslate. They learn that everyone is in terrible danger because badguysare after Monique. Helene asks for weapons. (She now begins to speak inEnglish.) Suddenly a couple of the badguys break into the house and startshooting. Helene is able to kill them with her handgun and retrieve theirsubmachine guns. Helene is somehow wounded and pulls a pulsing mass (herfetus?) from her stomach. Eeew.
11:40 p.m.: While wounded Helene lies in Elizabeth's arms and Vickie,Marie, and Mina, armed with machine guns, hold off the assassins, Moniquebecomes fascinated by the angel at the top of the Christmas tree. Shecarries the angel downstairs and, using only her mind, she unlocks thedoor into the room where Rachael is sitting. Meanwhile, Tom attempts torun from the house but is shot by Jouvet, who says as he pulls thetrigger, "Goodbye, little brother." When one of the badguys tries to enterthe room where Rachael and Monique are sitting, Monique uses her mindpowerto cause him to bleed to death. Mina is killed by one of the badguys, andJouvet breaks into the house.
11:59 p.m.: Suddenly a spaceship appears in the sky. It begins shootingdown the remaining badguys. It finally dawns on Elizabeth that Helene andMonique are not from France, but from another world. Two moreblonde-haired alien women are beamed down into the house. Jouvet shootsHelene, but the two aliens force Jouvet to turn his gun on himself. AsHelene lays dying on the floor, she tells Monique to go with the twoaliens as they are her "own people." Monique beams up with the aliens,Helene dies, and Rachael takes possession of Helene's newborn.
Epilogue: It is @7-8 years in the future. The survivors -- Rachael,Elizabeth, Vickie, Marie, and Helene's second daughter -- are throwingrocks in a pond. Voiceover: The future is always a mystery; the past apuzzle. We never found out the whole history of Helene and Monique; we areleft to wonder. But the example of this new, mysterious child will have tobe enough, for in this chaotic and savage world, if we cannot put ourfaith in our children, wherever they may come from, then what can we putour faith in? [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
