**Official Selection: 2016 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL**
**Official Selection: 2016 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL**
**Official Selection: SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST 2017**
“An outrageous antenatal shocker that brings together murder, madness and maternity in a fever dream of fear and farce. An audacious directorial feature debut.”
– Mark Kermode, THE GUARDIAN
“A striking, raven-dark comedy of pregnancy and serial murder. Uniquely frightening and funny. [Lowe’s] performance is a marvel.”
– Guy Lodge, VARIETY
“Evokes a kind of deadpan, British kitchen-sink Dario Argento… A uniquely exhilarating disregard for conventional morality.”
– David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Synopsis:
A pitch black, wryly British horror comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe (“Sightseers,” “Hot Fuzz,” “Paddington”) that’s as funny as it is vicious, PREVENGE follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It’s her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth’s actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims. Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood.
PREVENGE marks the directorial debut from Lowe (star and co-writer of Ben Wheatley’s “Sightseers”), who is a true triple threat, writing, directing, and acting in the film during her own real-life pregnancy. It received a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Directorial Debut.
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TRT: 88 min
Director: Alice Lowe
Writer: Alice Lowe
Cast: Alice Lowe, Gemma Whelan, Kate Dickie, Jo Hartley
Distributor: Shudder