This Kit Harrington & Noémie Merlant Horror Movie Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Baby Ruby is a visceral, gory, and disturbing horror movie that looks at the dark side of motherhood.
The birth of a child is a nervous time for many expecting parents. Having children can bring enormous life changes, shifts in relationship dynamics, and new identities as parents step into the role. The individual self is now permanently affixed to the new identity, that of a parent, and this can be a joyous time for some, but it can also be immensely distressing. What happens if the supposed joys of parenthood are anything but that? The 2022 psychological horror, Baby Ruby, puts the terror of newfound parenthood under a microscope. In Bess Wohl's directorial debut, the beleaguered parents are Noémie Merlant as Jo, the anguished mother, and Kit Harington as Spencer, the stretched-too-thin father. What makes this film particularly effective is its use of body horror as an allegory for the fear of motherhood and the hell of postpartum depression.
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