Baby fever meets body horror in the most unhinged maternity arc ever filmed.
Joy and Harry are trying to have a baby. One night, Joy swallows a spider in her sleep. When Joy subsequently develops an insatiable appetite for flies, it dawns on her that there may be more than one way of becoming a mother.
Practical Effects
Slimy, tactile creature effects that Cronenberg would approve.
Acting
Carmichael commits fully to the physical comedy of insect consumption.
Director
Celine Cotran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 'maternal body horror' shorts examining pregnancy through grotesque transformation, alongside films like The Brood and Titane.
Laura Carmichael filmed the fly-eating sequence in a single nauseating take using candied props that melted under hot lights.
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