Antibirth (2016)

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Alias
This is one of the few films I actually regret watching. What a shambles. Lyonne is great, but there are tons of films and series out that do a lot more with her talents, and that aren't annoying edgelord horror movies that confuse everybody swearing all the time with darkness or meandering non-story with complexity. It doesn't even have the very low thrill of some decent gore. 3 years 8 months ago
Siskoid
In Antibirth, Natasha Lyonne plays a party girl dosed with something that starts having terrible and terrifying effects on her body, going from drug-fuelled hallucinatory indie in the first act, to a paranoid thriller filled with body from then on, until it hits an absolutely crazy ending. But thematically, it's just as erratic as that plot. It's largely about the fear of... well, that's the problem, isn't it? The fear of WHAT? I kind of morphs throughout. Of people putting things in your body without your consent, of drug side-effects, of getting pregnant and having one's body (and lifestyle) change. But whether any of this really connects with the film's X-Files dossier of a story, I'm not too sure. Lyonne is great as an unrepentant partyer living in a dead-end hell hole - that's almost a given by now - but she's not well served by the infodump that stops the movie to reorient its genre. Some cool shocks and atmosphere, but it could use a bit more focus. 1 year 1 month ago