A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe (Sightseers, Hot Fuzz, Paddington), 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 wrote, directed and acted in the film during her own real-life pregnancy.
BIFA voters say:
“This is a bold an inventive debut from Alice Lowe – I think it brings a genre lens to a really provocative and problematic idea; that women go bonkers when they’re pregnant. I’m quite frankly astounded she managed to make it when she was that heavily pregnant! A great example of a team just getting out there and doing it with the added bonus of doing it really well.”