Director: Nate Hilgartner
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Psychological
Plot:
After a one-night stand, a woman finds herself pregnant after the experience and tries to go about her life dealing with a situation she doesn’t want and can’t control what type of hallucinations she has going on around her, eventually turning everything into a dire struggle to survive.
Review:
Overall, this was a rather strong and impressive genre effort. Among its better qualities is the incredibly detailed storyline, offering a means of getting to know who she is and what she’s going through. As the early stages of this provide the kind of backstory on who she is and what’s going on, from the lousy dead-end job that goes nowhere, the disastrous home-life trying to take care of her drug-addled mother, and no chance at a higher education to get herself out of it, it creates a strikingly sympathetic point of view towards everything going on with her. Even the random fling that gets her pregnant doesn’t do much to change this, creating the kind of setup that helps to understand her situation all that much more.
As time goes on and she gets far more along in her pregnancy, and the inability to deal with it due to the nature of the world around them, this helps to fuel the desire for help getting a grip on the situation. With everything spiraling and unable to stop it, the pressure mounting from others around her to keep the child she doesn't want, and the ever-increasing medical bills to have to pay for everything that goes on to screw up her life, the gradual deterioration of her sanity at these conditions not only feels right but also earned quite readily when it’s all brought even closer to the forefront with the graphic visions and dreams she has. There’s a bit too much here to have to buy into regarding how low her life is and the oppressive laws against her, but it’s not enough to negatively impact it.
Overview: ***.5/5
A solid and likable psychological genre effort, there’s a lot to like here in this type of approach, which helps to keep this one going despite a few slight issues present here. Those with an appreciation for this kind of approach or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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