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  • Complete Monster: Dr. John Hindle is a seemingly affable, gentlemanly OB-GYN who takes advantage of his position as one of the most prestigious fertility doctors in the world to discreetly rape dozens of women, impregnating his patients—all women who have had difficulties having children—which what he tells them is their husbands' and boyfriends' sperm, but in actuality is his own. Bribing a former med student of his, Adrian Martin, with a lucrative partnership at his clinic to recruit his wife, heroine Lucia "Lucy" Martin, for his project, Hindle proceeds to gaslight her incessantly to prevent her from discovering his secret, and later attempts to kill her outright when she does. Hindle is also a firm believer in eugenics and justifies his crimes as an attempt to stock the human gene pool with his own "ideal" DNA.
  • Ripped from the Headlines: Essentially a horror movie version of the case of Donald Cline, an Indiana fertility doctor who was found to have used his own sperm at the fertility clinic where he was employed during the 70s and 80s, resulting in over 90 children born to unwitting parents.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some people believe the movie would've turned out much better (and the title would've made more sense) had it turned out that Lucy wasn't actually pregnant at all and had fooled herself into thinking she was because she was that desperate to have a baby.

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