MUM, I’M ALIEN PREGNANT

Mary, a slacker, lets life pass her by until, in the laundry room of her block of flats, she becomes so aroused by her eccentric neighbour’s unusual—because, well, alien—genitals that they both start masturbating. Unfortunately, his acidic ejaculate eats through her worn-out jogging bottoms and before she knows it, Mary is pregnant with an alien. With this highly bizarre and enormously slime-laden gross-out comedy, the New Zealand directing duo THUNDERLIPS succeed, on the one hand, in continuing the worthy splatstick tradition of Kiwi cinema, significantly shaped by Peter Jackson, on the other hand, Mary’s Body Horror is also a sharp and multi-layered commentary on the odyssey of many women who wish to legally terminate their pregnancies.