Seen as one of the front-runners at Cannes for the festival’s top prize earlier this year, Alpha was then hit with fierce backlash from critics – but I liked it.

The divisive movie, which inspired walkouts but is now is cinemas, is the latest from French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, known for her boundary-pushing work in the body horror space with the likes of Raw and Titane.

I must admit that I felt really uncomfortable watching it – but that, to me, was the point of the film.

Alpha is gruelling but also thought-provoking, set in an alternate version of the 1980s/90s where society exists under the shadow of a deadly bloodborne disease which slowly turns those suffering with it into marble.

That’s the expected body horror element of the movie, which is often weird and unsettling, althoug

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