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  Review by Simon Ramshaw ★★★½ 3

  The Babydook

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  Review by single white femalien 12

  exactly why babies cant be trusted

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  Review by Marian ★★★½ 1

  two things that are very scary: pregnancy and british people

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 2

  If “The Boss Baby” offered the family-friendly suggestion that having a child is akin to a corporate merger, Alice Lowe’s gleefully demented “Prevenge” makes the far less pacifying argument that carrying one is more like a hostile takeover. Or, at least for one unfortunate Cardiff woman, a demonic possession.

  Ruth (Lowe) is eight months pregnant, newly widowed, and beginning to hear a bloodthirsty voice from inside her own body — from her womb, to be exact. Speaking in a high-pitched coo that sounds like Shirley Henderson with a homicidal twist, the unseen fetus (Lowe, effectively talking to herself) paints a nihilistic picture of the world, coercing her prospective mother to see other people through a black veil of her own grief. “People may be sweet,” Ruth’s bump whispers up at her, “but I’m bitter.”

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 2

  Look Who's Talking: the Reboot

  
  I shall henceforth worship the ground Alice Lowe walks on.

  Mainly because she has a deeply dark sense of humour and is extremely talented on all levels.

  And partly because she really scares me.

  Prevenge is so deadpan in its humour and its horror it won't work for everyone. For me it worked perfectly. It's wry, dry and twisted, making me laugh out loud on more than one occasion and look away in disgust on another.

  One could argue that its narrative is stretched a bit too thinly and there is probably some truth in that, but there is just so much bizarreness to relish I simply couldn't care less.

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  Review by Dan Abel ★★★

  Ruth is a soon to be mother grieving the loss of who would have been the future father. She hears a voice in her head that claims to be her unborn daughter. A voice that sends her down a brutal path of serial killing.

  I have seen hundreds of slashers but I've never seen one with a psychopath serial killer of an expecting mother who thinks she is guided by her unborn child to kill those who have wronged her in the past. An interesting premise in a genre full of strange premises.

  Prevenge is a British slasher that definitely has it's highs and lows. Regardless of it's original premise it still feels generic and basic and that extends to…

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  Review by J. K. ★½ 4

  A pseudo possession-slasher centered around a troubled pregnant woman who has recently lost her husband in a mountain climbing accident(?). There are a few elements I liked, but many others that induced frequent eye-rolling. My biggest complaints are that I could have done without the voice of her unborn baby talking to her throughout the movie. I feel it should have just been implied that she heard the voice and that would have made it seem more impactful. I also wasn't particularly a fan of any of the characters. Outside of our psychotic soon-to-be mother, they were stereotypical and disposable at best, and I'd be lieing if I told you I will remember any of this in a month or…

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  Review by scream queen ★★★½ 1

  this is exactly how I imagine pregnancy to be

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  Review by Jack Howard ★★ 2

  I was really disappointed by this. It doesn’t live up to its great premise. It’s shot and directed like someone’s uni project. It’s billed as a horror/comedy but it’s not funny enough or scary enough to be either. It might have worked better as a short film? I dunno. I didn’t like it and I really wanted to.

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  Review by AbandonChimp ★★★

  I guess you can add 'homicidal fetus' to the ever growing list of reasons why women should have control over their bodies.

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  Review by Jesse ★★★ 1

  I have to give some major, major credit to Alice Lowe for writing, directing, and starring in this film while ACTUALLY PREGNANT. Amazing. 

  And churned out a really decent thriller with twinges of comedy sprinkled throughout. Well worth the time especially if you’re looking for a killer fetus movie.

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  Review by adambolt ★

  woman was gonna give birth to a frigging Teletubby