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.
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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 and 34 minutes later: i was right
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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…
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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.
Antibirth is quite the trip! It's all over the place really, but there's plenty of good ideas here. We focus on a party girl who wakes up following her latest bender believing she might be pregnant - but as the symptoms get stranger, turns out there may be a bit more to it. The film is a mixture of lowlife drama and body horror. Natasha Lyonne is really excellent in the central role, delivering a performance that is self destructive and yet somehow sympathetic. The body horror is gloopy and disgusting when it appears - which could have been a bit more often. The plot itself meanders but touches on a whole host of interesting elements, with the central question…
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…
oitnb ruined natasha lyonne for me or maybe natasha lyonne ruined natasha lyonne for me who knows! i don't want anymore tho sorry
Part of my 2019 Theme Month Extravaganza
JANUARY: New Millennium Arthouse Horror (BONUS)
Confusion, paranoia, unexplained pregnancy, weird goo-gushing growths... is it all the drugs, or is there really some evil design afoot? Lou (Natasha Lyonne) is trying to piece this together in the wake of a blackout at a party that's left her with troubling signs of pregnancy. She's positive no intercourse took place, either during those missing minutes or for a considerable time prior, while the havoc the speedy growth wreaks on her body is clearly not expected from an average gestation. Lou seems mostly annoyed at this affliction, an inconvenience for a life that revolves around booze, pot and whatever else she and her best pal (Chloë…
