2025 · horror · drama · sci-fi
Alpha
Directed by Julia Ducournau2h 8m2025
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Our read: Alpha (2025) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · drama · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
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How Alpha feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want intense French body horror about a teen girl and mysterious disease.”
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