Birth/Rebirth
Birth/Rebirth
A morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl's mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, they enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
Birth/Rebirth is kind of modern feminist Frankenstein and I really loved it. When a young girl Lila, tragically passes from a bacterial meningitis infection, Rose seizes the body from where she works in the morgue in order to test her experimental treatment for bringing beings back to life. Appalled at first, but when Lila’s mother, Celie, finds out her daughter is potentially still alive, she enlists to help Rose with her experiments.
I loved all of the ideas explored here. Sacrifices women make to become mothers, the treatments they’re subjected to, sometimes without consent. In addition, there’s the obvious ethical dillemma’s of harvesting tissue and cells from unknowing/non-consenting mother’s in order to save your own child. A extremely well conceptualized film with some very realistic blood and gore effects, too. Highly recommend.