Shelley (2016)

Directed by

Ali Abbasi

Genre

drama film, horror film

Country

Sweden, Denmark

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

15

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 135 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Danish couple who cannot have children ask their Romanian maid to be a surrogate mother. As her pregnancy progresses, strange and sinister events begin to occur.

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What happens

Shelley is a 2016 Danish drama horror film directed and co-written by Ali Abbasi (in his feature directorial debut) and stars Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Peter Christoffersen as a couple who, faced with the inability to bear children, arrange for their Romanian maid (Cosmina Stratan) to be a surrogate mother, soon leading to increasingly sinister events as the due date approaches. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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