Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors

A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread remains such a fascinating cinematic subgenre. Alas, there are several iconic titles which often seem to eclipse contemporary offerings attempting to examine the inherent tensions associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Johanna Moder’s latest film, Mother’s Baby, is the latest in what seems a perennial cycle revisiting these fears through more outlandish parameters. But hasn’t this been done to death? A suitably paranoia primed lead performance from Marie Leuenberger (and an appropriately sinister Claes Bang) can’t get around the script’s familiar beats, which also feed us details making everything seem too obvious for any real tension to build.…...