Where I Watched it: Hulu

English Audio Description Provided By: point 360

Written By James Mason

Narrated By Robert Ericsson

Hulu seems to invest in low-budget horror for October, as every year I end up watching some random stuff they are pumping out that no one else is watching or cares about. Even a cast member of Schitt’s Creek isn’t enough to make this pop. And mislabeling this movie as a Comedy/Horror is not going to help.

in fact, considering that a large chunk of this film and how the monster works is making someone depressed, lonely, and feeling worthless, it is kind of the opposite of that. The idea of suicide is floated in this movie, as means to an end. I’m going to go with “not comedy”. Although, there are moments where the film is so low budget it may feel like one.

Without revealing too much, the movie revolves around a young woman who is having intestinal problems at the very top of the film. Eventually, like in Alien, a little thing sprouts from her, but it’s like a little version of her, and it’s not a very nice version of her either. Freaked out by this, she starts wondering if she ate her twin in the womb, and it has just been living inside her this whole time. I gave her a pass on stupidity, since I don’t know what I would think if a tiny version of me popped out of my belly.

But the film doesn’t end there, and goes in a very weird and twisty way. It’s definitely not where I thought it would go, so I give it props for misdirection. However, this thing that sprouts from her has one of the worst selections of voices. it starts out sounding like someone is speaking like T-Pain from inside a working dryer, which is then being held up to a cellphone from the 90’s, and then they recorded that. It’s just the most awful sound. Not in a good way. It sounds so cheap, like they just used some free voice modifier app from the App Store. I know you might want to save money, but come on.

Luckily, the mini version does change as the film moves on, and we aren’t stuck listening to that forever. But, wow. That’s the worst thing about the movie. Easily.

The audio description doesn’t sound like it was the highest quality recording either, but to be honest, this film is so cheap, maybe they just wanted to match the pennies on the dollar sound the movie is presenting. And after a few minutes, you stop noticing, because you have adapted to it somehow. noticeable at first, then not so much.

I would have appreciated better size relativity of the appendage. As a blind person not able to see it, I know audiences can, and since it seems to grow, I just had a hard time figuring out just how big it was in each scene. When i say size relativity, what i often mean is taking something that has no real world basis, and instead of letting our imagination run wild so we have a different experience than the sighted community. If the appendage is roughly the size of a pencil, say that. If it’s a foot shorter than the main character, say that. Comparing it to something that has a more real world component can help a lot.

I’d say this was OK to watch, because it is interesting in a weird way, but I think it might be a film no one remembers even a year from now.

Final grade: B-