A morgue technician, obsessed with defeating death, reanimates a woman’s dead daughter, and when she finds out, both of them cross every ethical as well as scientific line.
Shudder dares the out-of-the-ordinary… and improves itself! The film’s strongest suit is that, for just a little while, it focuses on the thrill and the drama and makes you believe that things can actually be all right. For a mum who lost her girl, things can still work out. But then it reminds you that messing with Mother Nature leads to hubris. Man or woman playing God is a one-way ticket to physical and/or mental torment.
Marin Ireland and Judy Reyes create incredible chemistry as two women who defy everything considered morally “right” in a script penned by Brendan J. O’Brien and co-written and directed by Laura Moss. Birth/Rebirth is a low-budget must-see for every horror lover and whoever examines the relationship between life and death.
Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” (1818) will always inspire such horrors, finding ways to modernise the God complex. By the way, it’s funny how we used to think that Frankenstein was the monster when he was the doctor… who was actually the monster.
P.S. Read my last note about Marin Ireland in my previous review: The Boogeyman (2023)
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