‘Son of Sara: Volume 1’ (2025) Review

2026 is officially off to a fantastic start thanks to Houston Bone’s wickedly entertaining Son of Sara. We’re all dearly familiar with Rosemary’s Baby and the unexpectedly-birthing-Satan setup, but Son of Sara brings the premise firmly into the 21st century with a deliciously campy tone that straddles the line between satanic horror and black comedy.

Sara (Chloe Van Landschoot) and her partner Carol (Tymika Tafari) are expecting a baby any day, as a result of Sara’s short fling with the roguish Troy (Garrett Hnatiuk) just before the women became an item, and the pregnancy is not being kind to her. When she and Troy happen to run into each other, he invites Sara to come back to his farm to have dinner with his mother (Jane Moffat), which she accepts despite Carol’s heavy reservations. When she gets there, she finds a mother-son duo reminiscent of Sleepwalkers, who have devious intentions for her and quite the diabolical origin story for her foetus.

Hnatiuk and Moffat have the most delightfully moustache-twirling evil vibe and play so well off of each other to the point of pantomime damehood. With Bone’s sharp and witty script at their disposal, they prance around playing for the back rows, serving face and body, and make for a villainous duo so wonderfully crooked that you can’t help but love them. Van Landschoot, meanwhile, delivers easily the most realistic childbirthing and vomiting I have ever seen committed to film, and is never afraid to get ugly, sweaty and screamy.

After easing into its premise, the movie quickly dials up to 11 and has you gasping, laughing and wanting to cheer for all its melodrama.

This is a camp masterpiece – one that I am thrilled to see subtitled as ‘volume 1,’ for now we have Sara and her surprisingly adorable devil baby, I cannot wait to see where this unconventional family unit ends up. Bravo, Houston and team!

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