Alice Lowe has stumbled upon a new kind of body horror: that of a heavily pregnant woman. Ruth is on a murder spree, guided by the wee voice in her womb who just happens to be a misanthropic areshole. The little voice chimes in, pointing out the bad people, or the disappointing people, or the less than desirable people, and encouraging mom to kill, kill, kill. Apparently there’s blood lust in umbilical cords these days!
Alice Lowe is my hero. She wrote (and starred in) Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, appeared in Adult 
Life Skills and Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, and lent her voice to Locke, among a flurry of other activity, including fucking. That’s crude, but the end result is that she found herself pregnant, and instead of taking maternity leave like a sane person, she wrote and directed herself, at 7.5 months pregnant, in this film about a homicidal fetus. And it’s her first feature as director!
Ryan Reynolds became murderous when his cat Mr. Whiskers told him to, but Alice Lowe has done him one better. Prevenge is blackly comic and wryly British, if I may say so. Ruth’s unborn baby seems to be holding the world accountable for her absent father, slyly suggesting to her mother that certain someones might be deserving of a gory end. Ruth seems to indulge baby’s every whim but does struggle with her conscience. Is this a new kind of pre-partum, um, madness? And what the heck is going to happen when the baby comes out? Yikes!
Shudder, “Home of Horror” hosted a screening in NYC where all pregnant women were admitted free. I suppose those who weren’t superstitious attended, and hopefully saw the humour in a pregnant lady killing for two. If that’s something you might be into, the good word is that Prevenge is streaming on Shudder right this very minute.
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Um, okay… I guess some people like this sort of thing…
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Um, yeah. We do.
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Oh I am definitely warped and twisted enough to want to see this! Awesome review Jay!😁
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It takes a special kind of person to get pregnant then think, “what if my unborn child told me to kill people?” Anyway, I bloody loved Sightseers, so looking forward to catching up with this at some point.
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Oh good Lord! (That’s a thumbs down for me…)
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I have heard a lot of buzz surrounding this and most has been extremely favorable. I would probably enjoy the darkly comedic take on pregnancy. Why not have a murderous fetus?
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probably won’t, but fab review Jay.
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What fragglerocking said…ditto here
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This sounds really fascinating. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for making me aware of it.
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I’m with Fraggy.. most likely won’t… but great review Jay
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Eh. I liked Sightseers a whole lot, but she must have been helluva bored during her pregnancy. Sounds like one of those dreadful low budget 80s horror flicks that might turn up on Channel 5 during the late hours.
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“. . . instead of taking maternity leave like a sane person, she wrote and directed herself, at 7.5 months pregnant, in this film about a homicidal fetus.” Lol!!! This sounds f-ing insane. I can’t wait to see this.
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Alice Lowe. Huge love. I enjoyed the 70’s feel in the film-making. Very in tune with Wheatley.
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