A trailer has been released for horror-comedy Prevenge, written and directed by Alice Lowe, who also stars. Lowe co-wrote Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, and it looks like Prevenge takes the dark comedy to an even gloomier level. Lowe’s pregnant character hears the voice of her unborn child, telling her kill strangers. She, apparently, complies.
Prevenge played on the festival circuit and will be released in the U.K. on February 10th, 2017. It has yet to secure U.S. distribution, but I hope we’ll have a chance to see it soon.
A pitch black, wryly British comedy, Prevenge follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree that’s as funny as it is vicious. 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, who is a true triple threat, writing, directing, and acting in the film during her own real-life pregnancy.
