Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant, 2026.
Directed by Sean Wallace & Jordan Mark Windsor.
Starring Hannah Lynch, Yvette Parsons, Arlo Green, Jackie van Beek, and Jonny Brugh.
SYNOPSIS:
When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant she must overcome sceptical doctors, a useless baby-daddy, and her oversharing mum in order to survive and reclaim her life.
There must be something in the water in New Zealand. The country that brought you the splatter insanity of Braindead, the black metal madness of Deathgasm and the frankly bonkers Black Sheep now brings you a movie with a title that is just begging to be watched, if only to see how far the filmmakers would go with such a concept.
Mary (Hannah Lynch) is a disorganised twenty-something still living with her overbearing mother Cynthia (Yvette Parsons). All Hannah wants to do is watch anime tentacle porn on her phone and masturbate to it, but Cynthia won’t leave her alone or give her any space, until one day Mary meets Boo (Arlo Green), a very odd young man who has moved in nearby with his mother Ann (Jackie van Beek). It turns out that Boo has a weird tentacle penis, as apparently his mother was impregnated during an alien abduction, and Mary is very interested to see it but when Boo climaxes and covers Mary in his sticky ejaculate she winds up pregnant, which would normally bring about its own challenges – not least that Mary does not want to be a mother – but when the baby is not going to be a normal human baby then things can only get stranger.
On paper the plot sounds like something from an old sci-fi/horror B-movie, and in the hands of a filmmaker like, say, Roger Corman or Frank Henenlotter it would have been, but this is body horror with a message, which puts it nearer to the camp of David Cronenberg. However, Cronenberg’s colder, more clinical approach would have made the material into something a lot darker and more disturbing than what filmmaking duo Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor (collectively known as Thunderlips) are clearly intending, and so Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant falls somewhere in between, mixing in messages about consent and bodily integrity with gloopy mutant babies and lurid bodily fluids.
Despite the lucrative concept most of the cast play it fairly straight, seeming to accept the fact that Mary is pregnant with an alien baby and that Boo has deformed genitals with little more than a raised eyebrow; even the staff at the hospital seem nonplussed when Mary turns up and explains the situation, as if that happens all the time. Again, an observation on the nature of dealing with the public in heightened or sensitive medical situations that most people can relate to, although when the heavily-pregnant Mary starts farting and even weirder things start appearing from her body, everyone around her treats it as a normal symptom of expecting a child.
However, with a wild and imaginative concept presented in such a way it feels like the absurdity is never fully embraced and the messages outweigh the humour, so that after the first half-hour – during which time we’ve met our characters, Mary is pregnant and we’re off to the hospital – the jokes don’t seem quite as funny and the idea runs out of steam, as if we should be accepting the situation as naturally as the characters in the film. Funnily enough, this movie was spawned from a short called Help, I’m Alien Pregnant and it probably should have stayed as a short because the bigger picture doesn’t seem to have as many legs – or tentacles, if you will – as the initial concept would have you believe. That said, how many other movies would have you seen where an expectant mother tries to open her own stomach with a pizza wheel?
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant has some novelty value, is funny at times – usually when Arlo Green is speaking – and is suitably juicy when it comes to the gore, but the (deliberately) deadpan performance from Hannah Lynch isn’t as endearing when it comes to delivering the absurd dialogue, and overall it doesn’t manage to sustain the joke/idea over the course of a full movie. You may also not look at your vacuum cleaner in quite the same way again.
Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★
Chris Ward
Originally published October 31, 2026. Updated November 1, 2026.
