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Prevenge preview screening, 8 Feb 2017

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Prevenge Alice Lowe. 2016

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Gonna watch Alice Lowe’s first debut film “Prevenge” (2016) in a bit!

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Alice Lowe in Prevenge

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very obsessed with this comedy horror film called prevenge, about a pregnant mother who kills people because she hears the voice of her baby telling her to do it. and not just because of the plot, but because the writer/director/actress alice lowe was actually pregnant while making the film. absolutely next level. she did not need to, but she did

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Horror Comedy of the Day: Prevenge (2016)

Ah, pregnancy. A period lasting round 9 months of body changes as a separate organism grows within a woman’s body, stretching it apart, taking away the nutrients of their food while messing with their hormones in funny ways. Quite the hassle, isn’t it? And yet so many women are willing to go through it for the sake of a child: theirs! Because of course, a woman is supposed to love their child… right?

Well, what about doing it alone though? Now that is an even bigger challenge, and unfortunately Ruth doesn’t have an option since her husband had the unfortunate luck to, well, die in a climbing trip. But Ruth knows otherwise, and the baby does too. The other climbers let him fall to his death, “the weight was too much” they said. So the baby doesn’t crave for sweets or pizza at midnight. No, she wants mommy to take revenge.

Directed and starred by Alice Lowe (who was genuinely pregnant during the filming, mind you), the very premise is already ridiculous enough to warrant some laughs. And boy, does the film deliver: it’s transgressive irreverence makes for the funniest conversations you could ever hope to see between mother and baby, as well as the entire thing being quite deadpan and snarky.

But of course, there’s the OTHER side of the story. Between an introspection of grief, abandonment and just the woes of pregnancy outside of merely the physical aspect of it all (like the expectations of others or even oneself, the lack of societal support and the double standards about child care), there’s a layer of frustration and sadness in the satire here that adds to the appeal of Ruth’s character. She’s for sure going crazy, but with all the crap piled on her, who blames her for not being a cinnamon roll?

Never before I've seen pregnancy being so central to a movie that it warps the very verbal and visual languages the events are seen by to both a hilarious and dramatic effect. Quite on the nose, but so worth it.