Moderately talented screenwriter Umeki fucks up his job of writing a
horror film, and trying to come up with a good shocker script leaves him
completely blank - until he accompanies his pregnant wife to a check-up
and comes up with the idea of a woman giving birth to a creature
half-human, half-lizard that turns into a carniverous monster that the
producers simply love ... but it seems that reality catches up with
fiction, and Umeki's wife really gives birth to a lizard baby, one that
eventually devours Umeki's pet dog. Thing is, apart from Umeki, nobody
seems to bother all that much about the weird mutant - which really pushes
Umeki over the edge, and he makes more and more attempts to kill it, and
his state also affects his behaviour on the film set. It's only in the
end that he comes to terms with his reptile offspring - and by that time,
his wife is already pregnant with a second baby ... then of course, the
film also suggests that the whole lizard baby story might have only taken
place in Umeki's mind to begin with. A fun little story that is
somewhat let down by a less than inspired and a tad too uneventful
direction that prevents it to come to full effect. Still, quite
entertaining to watch.
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