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The body-horror gorefest "Antibirth" proves that good actors can make nearly any movie at least a little bit watchable.
In a wintry Michigan town, hard-partying Lou (Natasha Lyonne) blacks out when some guys accost her at a party — and, when she wakes up in her remote trailer, she finds that she's pregnant and developing grotesque blisters on her feet and peeling skin on her neck. Lou enlists her best pal, Sadie (Chloë Sevigny), to figure out what was done to her, which leads to the neighborhood drug dealer, Gabriel (Mark Webber), who's involved in experiments with a weird alien drug. Lou also finds some unexpected help from Lorna (Meg Tilly, in her first feature film in 22 years), who seems to have had her own otherworldly experience.
Writer-director Danny Perez builds his story gradually, mixing psychedelic montages of Lou's precarious mental state, before the real shocks are released in the final third. Before then, what keeps our attention is Lyonne's fierce performance as the bong-smoking, booze-swilling woman dealing with an alien invasion going on inside her body.
'Antibirth'
Opens Friday, Oct. 14, at the Tower Theatre; not rated, but probably R for gore, drug use and language; 94 minutes.