Natasha Lyonne brings "punk rock shenanigans" to new thriller Antibirth

Natasha Lyonne doesn't think her new project is a horror film. 

While the trailer for Antibirth may scare some viewers and remind many of another famous film of that genre, Rosemary's Baby, Lyonne sees something more artistic, overlaid with "interesting punk rock shenanigans." 

Referring to her and co-star Chloe Sevigny's views on director Danny Perez's vision, she adds: "We see him as an aesthetic mastermind and original who has a real point of view and writes really dark dialogue." 

The film follows Lyonne's character Lou, a hard-drinking drug user who suddenly becomes pregnant. With no explanation of how this pregnancy came to be, Lou soon realizes that something abnormal and perhaps supernatural is happening to her body.

"In a movie like Rosemary's Baby or Black Swan, generally you have this pixie-esque male gaze fantasy of this virginal girl who goes through this body horror phenomenon," Lyonne explains, of how this film actually subverts the ideas of those types of thrillers. "Usually it's something thrust upon them and they're just so virginal, they don't even know how it happened to them and they walk around so wide-eyed, trying to cope — Lou is the utter antithesis." 

WEB EXTRA | Watch the trailer for Antibirth below.