After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.
Acting
Noémie Merlant's unraveling is genuinely distressing to witness.
Direction
Bess Wohl's debut makes domestic spaces feel actively hostile.
Director
Bess Wohl
Noémie Merlant
Jo
Kit Harington
Spencer
Camila Canó-Flaviá
Caroline
Eisa Davis
Sarah
Maxwell Cosmo Cramer
Mickey
Meredith Hagner
Shelly
Jayne Atkinson
Doris
Charlie Romanelli
Louis
Lucas Timothy Thompson
Ruby
Amber Janea
Farah
Pat Labez
Sheila
Gabriella Reese Thompson
Ruby
Reed Birney
Dr. Rosenbaum
Lauren Beveridge
Ginger
Emerald Rose Sullivan
Pam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wohl wrote this after observing how new motherhood and horror share the same grammar: sleep deprivation, body invasion, and the fear that something is wrong with you specifically.
The 'birth video' Jo watches is actually footage from Merlant's own research—she requested real home births to study, then couldn't unsee them.
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