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Information
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 98 min.
- Director
- Laura Moss
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror
- Rating *
- 7.2
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 90
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 2.2% (1:45)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:0
Top comments
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HebrewHammarMan
It's much more like a drama with some medical horror mixed in. There is a little talk around the topic of god, faith, religious idioms, and so on, but there isn't any supernatural stuff happening in this story.
I like to compare it to Shelley's Frankenstein (novel, 1818). Frankenstein is frankly a better version of this story; however, both the doctor and the monster are male in that story. On a tangent, I always wished Victor could have loved his creation instead of naming it "fiend", "spectre", "the dæmon", "wretch", "devil", "thing", "being", and "ogre". In stark contrast to Victor,
This shows the women have a strong sense of love and compassion for their resurrections.
I'm not a woman. I'll never be pregnant, possibly have miscarriages or abortions, give birth, be a mom, possibly grieve as a mother does, and so on. A lot of this story and film works with the fears & dreads of being a mother. Perhaps if you're a mother dealing with dreads and fears of motherhood, then perhaps this film works better for you. I'm not sure.
Overall, I didn't like the film. I always appreciated Judy Reyes (Celie), but I kind of wish she found a better movie to be a strong character in. 7 months ago