By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s a contemporary take on Mary Shelley’s classic FRANKENSTEIN.
IFC Films and Shudder will release BIRTH/REBIRTH exclusively in theaters August 18; the movie will also have its Quebec premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on Monday, July 31. Directed by Laura Moss from a script they wrote with Brendan J. O’Brien, it stars Marin Ireland (THE BOOGEYMAN, THE DARK AND THE WICKED), Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister, Breeda Wool, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Rina Mejia, Grant Harrison and LaChanze. The synopsis: “Rose [Ireland] is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession–the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls ill and dies, the two women’s worlds crash into each other. They embark on a dark path of no return where they will be forced to confront how far they are willing to go to protect what they hold most dear.”
