A Rundown of the 13 Best Horror Movies I've Seen in the Past Year
[10 of 13]
The Natal Horror Slot
The Natal Horror Slot
The third tie, and the winner for Most Severe Tonal Whiplash Double Bill of the Year...
ANTIBIRTH
(January 2016)
"I just... I really can't be pregnant, all right? It is not my style…”
So, seriously. Look at that cast.
So, seriously. Look at that cast.
Natasha
Lyonne (pulling down double duty as one of the producers, too!), Chloë Sevigny,
and Meg Tilly!
Do
I have to say anything more?!
If
I do, then this sordid little bit of lo-fi horror from writer/director Danny
Perez is, by far, the most off-the-wall, bizarre title this year.
Hard
partying Lou (Lyonne)--who was definitely
not in line when God was giving out maternal instincts--discovers, to her boozy,
laid-back annoyance, that she’s beginning to exhibit signs of pregnancy, when,
as far as she’s concerned, she can’t be (“… I think I’d remember if I had
someone’s c*ck in me”).
As
it turns out, “pregnant” is an absurd
oversimplification of what takes place in Antibirth.
Check
it out for the cast, then stay for the gooey bits…
SHELLEY
(February 2016)
Elena (Cosmina Stratan) is away from her Bucharest home (and civilization), working
for childless couple Kasper (Peter Christoffersen) and Louise (Ellen Dorrit
Petersen).
As evident from the one sheet, someone gets pregnant, and then things gradually go downhill from there.
As evident from the one sheet, someone gets pregnant, and then things gradually go downhill from there.
Ali
Abbasi’s Shelley (from a script by
Maren Louise Käehne and Abbasi) is measured and oblique natal horror--so
pregnant women or expectant couples, beware!
Actually,
this stuff is creepy and disturbing, even for someone who doesn’t fall under
either category…
As
Abbasi’s feature debut, Shelley is also
a powerful first cinematic shot, and a very promising indicator of what we can
hopefully expect down the road…
Parting
Shot: Incidentally, Christoffersen and Käehne both worked together previously,
on the second season of Bron/Broen,
which I’ve talked about here at the Iguana in the past.
(Antibirth OS courtesy of impawards.com; Shelley OS courtesy of shocktillyoudrop.com.)
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