First Born (2007) 7/10

Starring : Elisabeth Shue, Steven Mackintosh
Director : Isaac Webb
Running Time : 98 mins

When she falls pregnant, professional dancer Laura (Shue) gives up her career to become a full time mother to her newborn child, but with little support from her husband Steven (Mackintosh) and her mother living on the other side of the country, Laura soon starts to distrust everyone she meets and her overactive imagination soon starts to run away with her…

I was expecting this to be some sort of horror film, perhaps on a par with The Omen, but this was nothing of the sort. Instead of an overt horror, we are given something far scarier – a psychological melodrama that brings us into the life of a woman suffering from post natal depression who believes, rightly or not, that people are out to get her and her baby.

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