A Trailer Dropped For ‘Raw’ and ‘Titane’ Filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s New Creepy Infection Movie
“The film seems to be intended as an AIDS allegory, depicting a virus spread by sharing needles and bodily fluids.”
Julia Ducournau is a French writer and director whose first two feature films, Raw (2016) and Titane (2021), were horror hits. Raw is a coming of age story about a vegetarian student who eats meat for the first time and develops a craving for human flesh. Titane is a surreal body horror movie about a woman with mechanophilia. When it premiered, Titane won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Now, Ducournau’s next film, Alpha, is set to hit theaters this fall. Alpha has been described as “genre-defying” and seems to be a mash-up of drama, thriller and outbreak horror. The plot synopsis reads: “Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm.”
After seeing the film premiere at Cannes, Variety added some additional plot context, saying “The film seems to be intended as an AIDS allegory, depicting a virus spread by sharing needles and bodily fluids. Though a body horror touch is added with the skin of those infected turning to marble, the film is mainly a surreal drama. As the girl’s mother begins to fear her daughter is infected, memories of her late brother, an addict who died of the disease, make her increasingly paranoid.”
Here’s the teaser trailer:
Alpha will be distributed by Neon in the US and released in fall 2025, with no specific release date set yet.
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