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10 Horror Movies No Meaning Woman Should Watch

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Still/Born, debuting this week in theaters and on digital platforms, follows two young parents coping with the loss of one kid while fearing their remaining son is being targeted by an evil spirit. It'due south a paranoia-based thriller as much as it is a supernatural scary movie — and information technology's the newest addition to the pregnancy-horror canon.

By itself, pregnancy is a pretty scary thing, only when you add together in variables similar cannibalism, mutations, new species aptitude on earth domination, and abode invasion, suddenly you've got horror fodder for days. In advance of Still/Built-in's birth, here are ten of the most terrifying films centered on the miracle of life. (We know Rosemary's Baby is the all-time one of all time, so simply put an asterisk side by side to information technology and brand room for something else.) Your significant friends are strongly advised to skip these movie nights.

David Lynch'due south feature debut is exactly the kind of pregnancy horror you'd expect him to deliver — meaning there'southward a guy who's left lone to intendance for his "babe," except his infant is a lizard creature. We would give you more than to proceed, but really, what skillful is trying to summarize David Lynch?

Techno-horror from the analog days is great, because objects and so powerful and intelligent equally computers were still rare enough to scare the hell out of people. Thus we have Demon Seed, a movie almost a vivid scientist who builds a system that is so smart it tin develop leukemia treatments, achieve enough self-awareness to know it'southward trapped in a framework it wishes to escape, and is even capable of coveting homo women. The supercomputer, called Proteus, becomes then obsessed with the scientist's wife that it traps her in her own abode and forcibly impregnates her with its man-hardware hybrid offspring. In a genre that's filled with supernatural occurrences and tricks of the listen, Demon Seed is a dose of dark sci-fi to keep things interesting.

Just because the pregnancy in The Breed isn't conventional doesn't mean The Brood isn't a top-notch pregnancy-horror experience. Body-horror master David Cronenberg directs this movie about a troubled adult female named Nola undergoing an experimental psychological handling to address her trauma while her concerned hubby Frank cares for their daughter. All the while, a series of brutal murders are taking place in boondocks, and Frank comes to realize that Nola is connected to the killings in a most unexpected way. The twisted visuals are classic Cronenberg, and The Brood's climax is one of the most arresting concluding scenes in all of cinema.

The French actually know how to deliver good body horror, and this i's got a circus performer, a creature in search of a uterus for shelter, and plenty of cannibalism. When a woman named Yanka (said circus performer) has her womb taken over by a serpentlike organism that commands her to kill and eat claret to nurture information technology, she reluctantly becomes a complicit host and goes on a kind of road-trip killing spree. Yanka doesn't want to do the monster's bidding, just she besides knows this affair growing inside her is all she has — never heed that information technology tells her it will replace humans as the ascendant species on Earth a few million years from now. A mother's dearest is a crazy thing.

Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury most recently directed the reboot of Leatherface, but 2007's Within is their opus of terror. The movie is a standard-bearer for the difficult-core violence that defined the New French Extremity cinema wave from the mid-aughts (also see: High Tension, Irréversible). It centers on a grieving widow spending her final night alone before a scheduled labor inducement. First, though, she will have to survive the night, as a foreign woman tries relentlessly to corner her and excise the infant from her torso. Inside is maximally disturbing, blood soaked, and truly difficult to spotter. Expecting moms (and everybody else): proceed with loftier circumspection.

Widowed mothers are a good setup for a pregnancy-horror moving picture. The twist in Grace is that new mom Madeline carries her child to term after being advised against information technology to protect her life, and ends up giving nascence to … an undead baby. As is custom for the undead, the baby hungers for something other than milk, and since Madeline can't provide an endless supply of her own claret, she has to first finding it elsewhere.

Hungry Hearts distinguishes itself from the rest of the list by becoming a horror movie nigh by accident. The psychological thriller stars Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher every bit Jude and Mina, a young couple who hastily marry later on she gets meaning. It's a stark movie with very lilliputian involvement from anyone also Mina and Jude and the doctors growing ever more concerned that the newborn'southward life is in being endangered by his paranoid mother. Mina doesn't trust doctors, and is terrified that everything surrounding her son could poison and impale him, leaving him undernourished and underdeveloped as Jude fights to save him and pull her from madness. The couple'south entire life feels claustrophobic, and the movie invokes terror by way of discomfort that leaves y'all in nigh-abiding fright for the baby's safety. There are no violent gimmicks here — merely the horror of becoming a new parent.

Devil's Due goes full-tilt possession. Adorable newlyweds Samantha and Zach keep honeymoon to the Dominican Republic, and after a dark of dancing and drinking, they end up at a local party they're really going to regret later — if only they could remember what the hell happened. When Sam gets pregnant, the two are eager to start a family together, but everything takes a turn for the terrible when a group of mysterious strangers outset stalking the business firm, and disturbing things offset happening with the babe. We're talking telekinesis, pentagrams, Satanic rituals — the whole demon domestic dog-and-pony evidence — and information technology'southward all done home-video style cheers to Zach'south obsession with recording everything. Hey, you tin't take a pregnancy-horror listing without at least ane anti-Christ.

A gruesome genre needs some levity, and this body-horror entry from writer, manager, and star Alice Lowe is a black-one-act horror motion picture most a woman at the whims of her fetus. Ruth's partner and the begetter of her unborn baby was killed in a climbing accident (yep, another widow!), and to cope with the loneliness and acrimony and resentment, she starts taking marching orders from a voice in her head (or mayhap the vocalisation of her future infant) to kill all the people who were with him at the time of the tragedy. Ruth goes on the most unassuming rampage imaginable, but the real terror in Prevenge comes from the boxing women have with themselves when their bodies are hijacked by a growing beingness inside them, equally the world demands they think, feel, and act in prescribed ways. It'south a pregnancy movie for the frustrated soon-to-exist mom who needs to feel seen.

There are horror films that focus on demonic pregnancies, and those that focus on parental paranoia, only the fun of Still/Born is that it does both. Mary and Jack are new parents, and Mary'southward stay-at-home mom life gets a lot crazier when she starts suspecting a powerful demon is trying to claim her infant. The tension is exacerbated by the fact that the newborn is the just surviving one-half of a gear up of twins, and so Mary and Jack are grieving the loss of one baby as they try to intendance for the other. And so is in that location actually a malevolent sometime crone trying to eat her infant, or is Mary just so afraid of losing her remaining child that she's hallucinating the whole thing? And will she sacrifice some other baby to save her own?

10 Horror Movies No Pregnant Adult female Should Watch