Beginning/Rebirth Physique Horror Trailer: Frankenstein and Motherhood

After making its debut on the Sundance Film Festival earlier this yr—learn io9’s evaluate here—director and co-writer Laura Moss’ Beginning/Rebirth arrives in theaters subsequent month. It’s a sci-fi horror tale about two very totally different girls who understand they’ve a very grim fascination in frequent.

A brand new trailer is right here to warn you about tampering with the legal guidelines of nature, regardless of how a lot you wish to attempt to bend them to your will. Test it out!

Right here’s the official synopsis: “Rose (Marin Eire) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interplay. She additionally has an obsession—the reanimation of the useless. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has constructed her life round her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night time, Lila instantly falls sick and dies, the 2 girls’s worlds crash into one another. They embark on a darkish path of no return the place they are going to be compelled to confront how far they’re prepared to go to guard what they maintain most pricey.”

Reyes is superb as a mom whose grief causes her to go to stunning extremes; Eire is equally excellent as a kind of Herbert West kind—if West began giving beginning to his personal experiments, that’s. Beginning/Rebirth arrives in theaters August 18.

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