Goody Goody

First-time feature director Raymond Creamer puts a diabolical new spin on the evergreen subgenre of prenatal anxiety horror with his pressure-cooker account of a home birth gone terribly wrong. Experienced midwife Sarah (Colleen Foy) reluctantly agrees to assist an expectant couple with an ill-advised all-natural delivery at their remote wooded property—but when a howling snowstorm traps them inside and cuts them off from aid, it’s not long before her apprehensions are vindicated. As the night wears on, a series of alarming and mysterious complications begin to disrupt the delivery, and Foy’s Sarah convincingly channels the mounting dread of a well-meaning caregiver caught between her patient’s demands and her own better judgment. Meanwhile, gothic-glam indie darling Samantha Robinson brilliantly embodies an all-too-recognizable brand of parental arrogance in Goody, the soft-spoken and serenely obstinate mom-to-be, whose stubborn conviction that she alone knows what’s best for her unborn child is put to the gruesomest of tests. A Shudder release.