Directed and written by Danny Perez, this film is about Lou (Natasha Lyonne) waking up after a party and feeling the same way she did when she was pregnant, more than a year ago, a horrific experience that ended with her losing her baby in a nightclub toilet. Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) believes that she is knocked up again and hiding the fact. But life goes on and so does work. As Lou cleans a motel, a place where she runs into strange people like Lorna (Meg Tilly).
There's also Gabriel (Mark Webber), Sadie's boyfriend, a drug dealer who doesn't just sell weed and pills. He gets experimental mind-altering substances that will give you the promise of Screamers for real - they will turn your skin inside out.
Lorna comes to Lou after she has an episode where some beings from Funzone, an arcade, experiment on her pregnancy and leave her with a festering blister on her foot. Claiming to be a clairvoyant, Lorna says that she was visited by similar creatures when she was in the military. Lou has a worse origin story - she was traded to a mysterious man named Isaac (Neville Edwards) in return for drugs and Gabriel had used her as a test subject for an experimental hormone for women that he's selling as a street drug.
Lorna tries to remove Lou's child with a cesarian section but she still gives birth to a head. A SWAT team arrives, as do Gabriel and Issac. Lorna is killed and Isaac reveals that he has been to space and this experiment is to make children that can survive toxins - like all the drugs inside Lorna's body - and asks for her help in creating the perfect new being. She refuses as she gives birth to the body of the creature, which causes her to deflate. Whatever that thing is, it kills everyone in the trailer, and at the end, more SWAT arrive to find it holding its head in its hands.
This movie finds its protagonist finding that the party has ended and that now, you get high just to escape. What was once fun has become work, as you live in a small town where everyone is constantly either getting messed up or stuck in a permanent bad trip. Why should a week-long pregnancy change anything? This movie feels like where I came from.
There's also Gabriel (Mark Webber), Sadie's boyfriend, a drug dealer who doesn't just sell weed and pills. He gets experimental mind-altering substances that will give you the promise of Screamers for real - they will turn your skin inside out.
Lorna comes to Lou after she has an episode where some beings from Funzone, an arcade, experiment on her pregnancy and leave her with a festering blister on her foot. Claiming to be a clairvoyant, Lorna says that she was visited by similar creatures when she was in the military. Lou has a worse origin story - she was traded to a mysterious man named Isaac (Neville Edwards) in return for drugs and Gabriel had used her as a test subject for an experimental hormone for women that he's selling as a street drug.
Lorna tries to remove Lou's child with a cesarian section but she still gives birth to a head. A SWAT team arrives, as do Gabriel and Issac. Lorna is killed and Isaac reveals that he has been to space and this experiment is to make children that can survive toxins - like all the drugs inside Lorna's body - and asks for her help in creating the perfect new being. She refuses as she gives birth to the body of the creature, which causes her to deflate. Whatever that thing is, it kills everyone in the trailer, and at the end, more SWAT arrive to find it holding its head in its hands.
This movie finds its protagonist finding that the party has ended and that now, you get high just to escape. What was once fun has become work, as you live in a small town where everyone is constantly either getting messed up or stuck in a permanent bad trip. Why should a week-long pregnancy change anything? This movie feels like where I came from.