User:ReaderofthePack/Postpartum (film)

Postpartum is a 2015 American short horror film that was directed by Izzy Lee, based on a script she wrote with Christopher Hallock. The film had its world premiere on October 31, 2015 at the Morbido Film Fest in Mexico and centers around a woman making an impromptu and possibly ill fated visit to a new mother.

Synopsis
Diana is a young woman that has decided to visit her friend Holly, who just recently gave birth. However when she arrives she sees that Holly has been served with an eviction notice and Holly herself is partially covered in what appears to be blood. Concerned, Diana tries to get Holly to explain what is happening, only for her to act in an increasingly bizarre manner.

Cast

 * Kasey Lansdale as Holly
 * Diana Porter as Diana
 * Stee McMorris

Reception
Critical reception for the short has been positive. Twitch Film and Rue Morgue both gave Postpartum favorable reviews, with Rue Morgue writing that it was "effective at getting under your skin with a genuinely unnerving ending, and puts its own dark spin on a well-trodden plotline." Diabolique magazine highlighted the short's music and title as highlights, remarking that the music was "dramatically effective" and the title had "this satirical/profound duality to it: on the one hand, it’s referencing postpartum depression, which is certainly no laughing matter. But on the other, it’s referring to the period of time itself in which Lansdale’s character finds herself—a moment in which she occupies a liminal existence when the hammer of reality, it seems, has yet to fall. The (literal) skeletons in her closet are safe…for now."