When you start watching this, you will likely be thinking about Basket Case. But this movie deviates from that start in an interesting way. Our main character, Hannah (Hadley Robinson), has a birthmark that begins to spontaneously grow until it takes shape and detaches itself from her body. She finds a support group for this specific abnormality of life. The group offers her a means to keep the growth docile. The growth though is more than just a growth. It rapidly turns into a doppelganger of Hannah.

The director and writer, Anna Zlokovic, has a handful of credits to her name but this is her first feature length project. She did a good job on both the writing and directing and I look forward to checking out her next project.

Gonna give it a wrap up now, don’t continue unless you want major spoilers. I enjoyed the movie and give it a 6 star review.

SPOILERS

I honestly wish the movie had been slightly shorter, maybe 10 minutes. There is a very unhappy ending point that would have been amazing. The doppelganger has fully taken on the personage of Hannah with the original being kept prisoner. The support group is actually only doppelgangers who have replaced their originals. End it now! Let it be a win for the doppelgangers. But no, there is another 10 minutes where Hannah is rescued and the doppelganger overcome. But even that “happy ending” wasn’t enough and the final scene shows Hannah coddling the doppelganger who has reverted back to the tiny creature that first emerged from her side. Honestly had it ended at the doppelganger win point I would have given this movie a much higher rating. 9 stars for the sad ending. Oddly it isn’t the first movie I have felt would have been better at an earlier ending that radically changes the story.