What could be scarier than knowing that something is growing inside of you, and that it will one day burst forth from your flesh to wander the earth bearing your features? When put so tenderly, it’s no surprise that themes of motherhood and birth find their way into many a frightening movie. Torontoist‘s own Kiva Reardon takes the mic at the last Black Museum lecture of the semester—Woeful Wombs: Pregnancy and the Horror Film—to discuss this very topic. Rosemary’s Baby, The Fly, and Twilight will be some of the examples used to illustrate Reardon’s study of how reproduction is represented on the big screen.

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