Alice Lowe stars in Prevenge: The mother of all horror revenge films

Being pregnant led Alice Lowe to refuse a work project, so she made her own movie involving pregnancy, writes Esther McCarthy.

WHEN she became pregnant with her first child, you’d have forgiven busy actress Alice Lowe for putting her feet up and taking a rest. Instead, she wrote directed and starred in Prevenge, a revenge horror in which she plays a pregnant multiple killer convinced her foetus is compelling her to kill.

The result is a pitch-black comedy in which Lowe’s Ruth is a not entirely sympathetic character. It’s the antithesis of how pregnant women — glowing, homely — are generally portrayed, and that, she agrees, was kind of the point.