With last week’s release of Immaculate starring Sydney Sweeney and The First Omen coming to theaters on April 5, it seems more than appropriate to examine some of the best pregnancy horror movies.

Horror movies are an uncomfortably ideal medium for storytelling about the bloody, nightmarish experience that is pregnancy. I’ve seen it enough in the genre to detect a pattern. So has Jess McIntosh, ...

While many pregnancy horror movies focus on the actual act of giving birth, Baby Ruby goes in a different direction, focusing instead on the terrors of postpartum depression. As paranoia begins to ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it’s still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman ...

The idea of the pregnant man has long been mined for Hollywood comedy. This summer, he becomes a menace. By Amanda Hess When I was four months pregnant, just as my midsection had grown vast enough to ...

In classic Hollywood movies, having a baby was an exercise in innuendo. Actors could say the word “baby,” but not the word “pregnant.” They could say a woman “went to the doctor” — just as long as ...

We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it’s still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman ...