The Midwife

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Terrible film, absolutely abysmal. These fake reviews need to be deleted, and the accounts blocked. You're seeing it far too often on this site now. Ok, so this has to contain 150 characters. 1 Mickey Mouse 2 Donald Duck 3 Minnie Mouse 4 Pluto 5 Daffy Duck 6 Speedy Gonzalez 7 Buggs Bunny 8 Yosemite Sam 9 Elmer Fudd 10 Sleepy 11 Dopey 12 Sneezy 13 Doc 14 Bashful 15 Grumpy 16 Happy 17 Snow White 18 Prince Charming 19 Rumpelstiltskin 20 & etc...etc...

In modern days an uncalled for midwife shows at a pregnant woman's door. Instead of calling the police, she is let in. She offers a pill, the pregnant woman swallows it. They are strapped for money, so they take in a lady tenant. Shortly after, the woman miscarries. She gets deeply depressed. The tenant starts an affair with her husband, obviously. They plan to tell her, but she gets pregnant again, so they wait. The midwife returns in the nick of time as the pregnant woman is about to hang herself on the garage door rail. An automated garage door, which the midwife causes to open from the outside.... In the scenes that follow the midwife induces a trance-state in the pregnant woman, in which she sees the remand and her husband together. Suddenly, after some time and again uncalled for, the midwife returns. As her husband is allergic to peanuts, the midwife produces some, which the wife blends into a powder later used by the tenant to cook dinner. Somehow her presence goes unnoticed during all this so, when she shows herself, she is welcomed and invited to dinner. While eating a piece of pie she finds a baby death certificate, which the husband believes was there introduced by his crazed wife. The midwife calls things into order - and she even grabs the man by the neck (one-handed, mind you) to stop him talking... She then leaves the three in the living room and goes to investigate the attic, from where the wife said she heard noises in the night (and we see this, including one instance where the husband was right there by her side). As she comes down from the attic, the husband starts coughing and quickly gets to foaming at the mouth. It seems allergic poisoning has the same effect as rabies or strychnine.... She sends the wife upstairs to get her medical bag, as a ruse to allow the "peanuts" to have their way with the husband. It works, as the guy dies in a matter of seconds. The midwife takes advantage of the state of despair the tenant is in to inject her with a "sedative" - in fact a "slow acting poison", as she declares to the stupefied tenant. The wife comes back and confront the slowly dying tenant, who denies any involvement with the now deceased husband. The midwife offers to inject a second, faster dose of poison to finish the tenant off already....but, as she gets ready to inject the paralysed woman, something happens and she stabs herself in the neck with the needle, neatly getting all the poison herself and dying in less than 10 seconds. The tenant takes the opportunity to say her last words: we were preparing the attic as a room for the new baby. And as she dies she lets drop a ribbon. Despairing, the wife runs upstairs (yes, runs....and she's about as big with the child as possible...) and goes into the attic....that had been worked into a room for the baby. The midwife reappears, out of thin air, to either kill the wife or to kill her and get the baby. As she was about to complete the deed, a chain comes out of the baby's crib, gets the midwife by the neck and chokes her to (this time real) death. As the wife goes check it out, she finds the tube with her miscarried and cremated child's ashes on the chains. Her dead baby saved her and the unborn sibling!!! She leaves the attic and, lo and behold, sees her husband and the tenant coming up the stairs to meet and hug her, as all is well! Crap of the basest sort. Not a single scare in 1,5h of wasted time.

I sat down to watch the 2021 movie "The Midwife", being under the impression that I would be in for a horror movie. And given the movie's mediocre rating here on IMDb (5 stars as I am writing this), I figured, that there might be a chance that the movie would be entertaining enough. So of course I sat down to watch the movie. And boy was I in for a rude awakening. "The Midwife" from directors Ryan Gage and Marta Baidek was a massive swing and a miss. First of all, the term horror might be stretching it a bit. Thriller perhaps, but horror? Not so much. Not unless you consider prolonged periods of nothing happening as being labeled horror, then sure. The storyline told in "The Midwife" was sluggish and lacking interesting contents, so my interest in the movie was quickly fading as the movie trotted on in a gut-wrenching slow pace with nothing happening. And the acting in the movie was bland. But of course, with the actors and actresses having nothing to work with in terms of a proper script or interesting characters, how could they possible put on something outstanding? I gave up on "The Midwife" about halfway through. By that time I was just fed up with the boredom of nothing happening. And this is not a movie that I will ever be returning to watch the rest of. My rating of "The Midwife" lands on a three out of ten stars, based mostly on the production value of the movie.

Lissie (Lara Goodison)is a self described "head case." She is pregnant and overly superstitious. Her husband Charlie (Jeremy Joyce) fills her head with tales of death and witches that took place on their land. Her reaction is cute and comical. Wendy (Adeline Waby) a midwife arrives unannounced and gives Lissie a potion to help her with her headaches. Lissie soon miscarriages. Friend Kara (Ellie Morris) who likes shrooms shows up to help out and Lissie is soon pregnant again. Lissie has wild dreams and thoughts. Reality and fiction become blended for a bit. The ending was not expected, but that doesn't make it good. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Man I love British horror!! Great find online, writing this so more people can see it. Tight plot and good surprises, particularly liked the Midwife character. Had major vintage thriller vibes!! I was hooked througout - good twist and characters.

Absolutely dumbfounded by how this has had several good reviews, the film makes absolutely no sense, theres not a thing scary about it, not even cheap jump scares. I'd avoid this one.

Not often you find movies that surprise you this way. I was looking for a british horror/thriller movie (my new favourite genre!) and came accross this movie. Highly recommend it! The story flows in a lovely way, so much that you don't expect the scary turns that come later as it all develops. I felt connected to Lissie's character (great acting work from Lara Goodison) from the beginning, and it was very interesting and gripping to see how her story unfolded. Miscarriages are not often well reprensented on screen, and the grief that the women go through when that happens either. It was heartbreaking to see Lissie's grief and I thought that it was dealt with in a sensitive and interesting way in this movie. The arrival of the Midwife is sudden, but as the story progresses you also get attached to her unusual self. I loved the tone of the movie, thought that the direction and production design were great vehicles to express Lissie's downfall. The biggest suprise - with no spoilers!! - comes at the end and it's totally worth a watch. Worth mentioning Kara (Ellie Morris) - a joy to see on screen and a great character to counter the Midwife's mysterious personality.

This is a low-budget horror with better-than-average acting and a pretty clever script. There aren't many chills or thrills, but there's plenty of pathos and atmosphere. The performances engaged me from the get-go, and the actor who plays the midwife is fantastic. Be aware that this film deals very realistically with miscarriage and grief. This is a spoiler of sorts, but I think you should know before watching it.

With a promising start, I waited for it to make sense. I watched the whole film. You think you are gettng to the point of the plot on numerous occasions and then it stops and goes somewhere else entirely. Only one actress/actor comes out with any credit here. That is Lara Goodison, the lead character Lissie, all others were mediocre, school play quality. If I judged this film without Lissie/Laura I would have lowered my rating further.