”Baby will tell you what to do. It’s just nature’s way.” True, perhaps, except this unborn baby is whispering to its mother Ruth, a frustrated, angry woman who has lost the father of the child, that it’s time to start murdering people. Evil 70s DJs, creeps, condescending employees, clueless midwives, and genuinely nice people are all victims of Ruth’s sudden homicidal urges… or is her baby really talking to her? In this blackest of black comedies, director Alice Lowe, who co-wrote the equally disturbing comedy, Sightseers, strips away absolutely every drop of sentimentality toward pregnancy, revealing that the whole process is painful and downright violent. Written and directed when Lowe was pregnant and unemployed, Prevenge “delivers cult thrills and devilish humour, [while] probing the existential darkness of [the] protagonist.” - Sight & Sound
Director’s Biography
Alice Lowe: Comedian Alice Lowe got her start in surrealist experimental theater, becoming a member of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe, before working in television and film. She was the star and co-writer of Ben Wheatley’s violent comedy Sightseers ('12). She has said of herself, “I don’t mind being the evil weirdo who murders people.”