Movie review: 'birth/rebirth' an effective modern take on 'Frankenstein' – Twin Cities
It's a shocking, disturbing and ultimately fascinating debut from director and co-writer Laura Moss.
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It's a shocking, disturbing and ultimately fascinating debut from director and co-writer Laura Moss.
Director Laura Moss' unsettling new take on 'Frankenstein' doubles down on the feminist dread, even when it's women doing the reanimating of dead corpses.
Bodies make sense to morgue technician Rose (Marin Ireland) — it’s people that don’t. A pathologist in a Bronx hospital, the socially awkward Rose is comfortable with death, almost flippant
A riff on Mary Shelley’s horror classic, “Birth/Rebirth” is a harrowing saga about motherhood in all its various forms with two titanic performances by its lead actresses.
IFC FilmsMarin Ireland is one of the finest actresses working today—a chameleon who’s comfortable in virtually every type of role (as evidenced by her recent standout contributions to Y: The Last Man and Justified: City Primeval) and who’s particularly well-suited for horror. Her headlining turn in Bryan Bertino’s The Dark and the Wicked is nothing short of phenomenal, and she once again demonstrates her scary-movie bona fides with Birth/Rebirth, a chilling riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in