2016 Directed by Danny Perez
In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.
watching this is kinda like meeting somebody who likes all the same stuff as you and gets all your jokes and its great but after an hour youre like, ok
me after reading the plot synopsis: there's no way this is gonna be better than the x files season 8 arc in which scully gets impregnated with an alien
me, 1 hour & 34 minutes later: i was right
bioluminescent acid reflux, bong ash, dirty afghans spread over dirtier couches, vega/rev dance parties, leggings under dazzey dukes, alien abduction infomercials, uninsured body horror as daily grind. this is a world that i not only understand and worse yet it is a world i still live in even though that world is gone and i don't live in it anymore. these things are what home feels like no matter how lost or contingent that sense of home might be. that home could fall away or slip out from under you, leaving you old and wasted and adrift, with what appeared to be semi-stable referents no longer referring, just junk in a pile of eviction trash from weekly rate motels off…
Antibirth is a kaleidoscope of garishness meets gross body/pregnancy horror, I'm contractually obliged to at least enjoy it, add Natasha Lyonne in a starring role and things are only looking up from here, right?
Mostly.
As much as I love Meg Tilly (and she was great, because she's always great, and I'm so glad she has returned to acting), I could have done without her character because she seemed tacked on and unnecessary, but nothing deserved to be cut from Antibirth more than all of the "Fun Zone" Mascot scenes that were forcibly tacky, sort of like a knock-off White Zombie music video.
Other than that, this was a stylish horror film that leaves me very curious about, director, Danny Perez and where he goes from here.
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Being torn apart from the inside out. Gnarly, disgusting art-trash, shifting between a border of surrealism and the vibe of pimple-popping videos. Natasha Lyonne is incredible.
The fact that a movie even exists with Natasha Lyonne, Chloë Sevigny and Meg Tilly combined was already enough for me to love this, but the fact that the movie itself is some kind of weird, druggie-horror hybrid about an aimless stoner with a gut full of fluoro slime made it a hundred times more enjoyable. What a trip.
I want to like movies like this. I want to encourage you to watch movies like this. I want more movies like this to exist.
But not like this at all.
After finishing Antibirth, I had a moment of self realization that I personally have grown past storytelling like this. Where the visuals (no matter how appealing they are) are incredibly dysfunctional. The sound choices really don't lend to the scenes. The editing is a fucking mess of what pretends to be experimental but feels a lot more like a reedit to save something not working about the narrative. I have personally grown past this sorta "fuck you audience" storytelling.
I understand the inclination to challenge people, and I do…
what the FUCK did i just watch for chloe sevigny and natasha lyonne...... im tired of being a lesbian
oitnb ruined natasha lyonne for me or maybe natasha lyonne ruined natasha lyonne for me who knows! i don't want anymore tho sorry
Wonderfully fucked up drug fucked pregnancy body horror with excellent cast, score, art design and cinematography. Can’t wait to see what the director pulls out next. Excellently fucked up.
Natasha Lyonne and some really gross body horror, what's not to like?
Something weird is going on in a town full of druggies and deadshits. Lou has blanked out something or other that happened to her at a party, and she feels off, but it's also hard to discern from how it normally feels post-bender. Is she pregnant? Fuck I hope not... for everyone's sake...
Ainda sem ideia de como avaliar esse filme objetivamente.
edit: resolvi dormir e acho que isso ajudou.
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