Baby fever meets body horror in the most unhinged maternity arc ever filmed.
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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