DARK ACADEMIA JUST GOT DARKER.
A night at the library turns into a nightmare when a Cambridge student comes across a creepy painting, and the dark past of her long-dead mother threatens to impregnate the present...
starring Lydia Makrides (DARK, Netflix) and Jack Medlin (CHANGING ENDS, ITV), Daniella DeVinter's gothic horror paints a visceral picture of how medical discourse has been used to repress women’s minds and oppress their bodies — and the painful lengths they have gone to fight back.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
"Totally independent and unfunded, this little monster of a film was shot over five nights at my college library in Cambridge.
After bumping into Freud and Fassbinder while doing a German degree, I became obsessed with '70s cinema and the treatment of women’s suffering on and off-screen. UNWELL WOMAN both honours and heckles the films of that decade, channeling the freak-factor of films like SUSPIRIA and DON'T LOOK NOW, while also exorcising their cultish hold over me.
Though it's set in the past, the darkness it deals in belongs to the present. In the 1970s women were fighting for new forms of bodily, sexual, and psychic autonomy. Flash-forward to today: some battles may have been won, but spectres of the patriarchal past still haunt us.
UNWELL WOMAN is designed to disturb, to haunt, to make you mad and make you shudder.
"I hope it will creep under your skin, and make Freud turn in his grave.
UNWELL WOMAN - UNLEASHED 2024
