Antibirth

Antibirth (2016)

In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.

Data di uscita
2016-09-02
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (127)
Durata
1 h 34 min
Generi
Horror
Regista
Danny Perez

Cast

Curiosità

Antibirth is a 2016 psychedelic body horror film written and directed by Danny Perez, produced by Cole Payne, David Anselmo, Rob Weston and Jeff Rice. It stars Natasha Lyonne, Chloë Sevigny, Meg Tilly, Mark Webber, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos and Emmanuel Kabongo. The film follows a drug-addled woman in a remote Michigan town who becomes pregnant after taking a strange drug. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016. The film was released in the United States on September 2, 2016, by IFC Midnight.

Production

The movie started from a desire by Perez to do something more focused on narrative than his usual work. In designing the feature, Perez sought to work with a female lead, telling Daily Dead "narratively and visually I'm more interested in that." He created a script to deliberately "subvert a lot of female archetypes", specifically subverting the idea of how pregnancy is usually depicted as "this image of women as glowing in gestational bliss and…

From the beginning, Perez wrote the film with Natasha Lyonne in mind, whom he was personally friends with, with her officially signing on in May 2014 along with Chloë Sevigny.

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