We all go a little crazy sometimes.
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has set a February 10th UK release for Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge, which played in TIFF’s Vanguard section this past September.
The trailer shows a pregnant woman, driven by the voice of her unborn child, who takes revenge for the death of her boyfriend, embarking on a killing spree that is both vicious and funny.
Sightseers actress Lowe also wrote the screenplay and plays the lead. Kate Dickie (The Witch) co-stars with Gemma Whelan (The Wolfman), Jo Hartley (Eddie The Eagle), Tom Davis (Free Fire) and Kayvan Novak (Paddington).
A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, Prevenge follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It’s her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth’s actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims.
Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood.
Having shown at Venice, Toronto and most recently the London International Film Festival, Prevenge marks the directorial debut from Lowe, who is a true triple threat, writing, directing, and acting in the film during her own real-life pregnancy.
