With Invisible Baby, writer/director Audie Harrison makes a quick little laugh bite with all the joyous joviality of Carl Gottlieb’s Son of the Invisible Man segment from the 1987 anthology film, Amazon Women on the Moon.
Christine Hassay’s Trixie wakes in the middle of the night to the sounds of a screaming baby. Thing is. It’s a baby no one can see, unless you’re wearing the high-tech goggles Trixie has fashioned. But now she is at odds. For Trixie has brought this child, unseen or otherwise, into this world with no help from the father.
Chuck Raucci’s Griff, the genius with whom Trixie works and who has been enjoying a long and lusty affair with his colleague, is now next to her on the couch, ready to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. His passion, this electricity that has been generated between them, has produced a life.
“It’s a baby no one can see, unless you’re wearing the high-tech goggles Trixie has fashioned.”
The baby’s cries echo through the living room as Trixie and Griff fight against each other, their desires and better judgment. Despite everything, Griff can’t just walk away, but if he’s found to be the father of an invisible baby, then what does that make him?
There’s a really great twist in this that this reviewer won’t spoil, but it’s a throwback to another movie that deals in similar unseen territory that cinephiles out there will get when they see it. Still, Audie Harrison’s Invisible Baby poses a great question whilst leaving open the possibility of an incredible petite comedic add-on to a Universal Pictures horror icon, with a dash of Lynchian sci-fi tossed in for good measure.
"…an incredible petite comedic add-on to a Universal Pictures horror icon..."
