French writer/director Julia Ducournau blew audiences away with her debut feature, Raw. She then did it again with the wildly unique Titane. And […]
French writer/director Julia Ducournau blew audiences away with her debut feature, Raw. She then did it again with the wildly unique Titane. And this weekend, audiences will once again get the chance to dip into the exciting mind of the filmmaker when her third body horror feature, Alpha, lands in theaters. Chomping at the bit to see it? It’s in theaters today.
“Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.”
The film stars Mélissa Boros as Alpha, Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim.
Alpha is rated R for “drug content, sexual material, language, and some underage drinking.”
Dread’s own Josh Korngut wasn’t as impressed with Alpha. In his review out of Cannes 2025, he described the film as “a hollow body horror misuse of the HIV/AIDS epidemic”.
