gruesomeness

But there wouldn’t be a movie if that went off without a hitch, and as the situation begins to deteriorate, Fargeat amps up the gore and gruesomeness to epic levels.

Whether that makes you lean in or recoil, any gruesomeness in “Spiritus” will depend on the vividness of your imagination.

And for Orfanos, the gruesomeness of his son’s death at the bar still permeates his thoughts.

“It’s a novel exploring not just the actual physical gruesomeness of what pregnancy is but also the medical gaslighting that even modern, very privileged women experience as they’re going through their pregnancies and the symptoms that I feel we as a culture still don’t talk about for strange reasons,” she said in the interview.

For example, standing right next to a table featuring a prop body vivisected in all of its gruesomeness was a hovering staff person and that was a distraction.