fresh blood

birth/rebirth

Rose works as a pathologist in a hospital. Socially awkward, it is only science that awakens her interest in bodily processes. Celie works as a midwife in the same hospital. When her infant daughter suddenly dies and the body Rose was autopsying disappears, she discovers that Rose is secretly experimenting with reanimating the dead. A pig has already been successfully revived, and the girl is the first successful attempt on a human. The two women decide to make a pact, but the price is high.

Director Laura Moss manages to turn familiar genre tropes into a powerful vision of her own, a horror thriller that literally gets under your skin and makes you uncomfortable, yet remains stylish despite all the gore. As Rose, Marin Ireland is astonishing in her radical interpretation of the mad scientist.