Charlotte (Mittel) moves into a secluded hillside home with her boyfriend Howard (Gunn), and soon discovers she is pregnant. But her happiness is clouded by several strange occurrences - ghostly footsteps, disembodied voices, and the appearance of an eerie, faceless woman. The encounters become more frequent and disturbing, and Charlotte is shocked to discover she is suffering from a Dissociative Fugue which has caused her to forget everything from the last nine months. As she sets out to uncover what caused her memory loss, the events of the past blend into the present - threatening not only her life, but that of her unborn baby.
Acting
Culwell's fragile, unraveling performance anchors the unreliable reality
Direction
Stepansky's patient, female-gaze approach to body horror and violation
Director
Barbara Stepansky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of vanishingly few 2010s pregnancy horror films directed by a woman, subverting the genre's historically male gaze on female bodies.
The fugue diagnosis itself becomes a narrative weapon—psychiatric labels here function as both explanation and obfuscation of actual violence.
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