When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.
Acting
Tamara Lawrance carries every frame of mounting terror
Production
The manor itself: rotting wealth, claustrophobic grandeur
Direction
Marcantonio's patient, suffocating restraint
Director
Joe Marcantonio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film reworks Gothic maternity horror through a racial lens—Charlotte, a Black woman, is trapped by a white family's dynastic obsession with bloodlines and property.
Jack Lowden and Chloe Pirrie previously played siblings in 'The Crown'—Marcantonio cast their established tension deliberately.
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