Atrailer has landed for “Prevenge,” writer-director-actress Alice Lowe’s deliciously unconventional portrayal of pregnancy. “You’ve got this force of nature now inside you. Baby knows what to do. Baby will tell you what to do,” Ruth (Lowe), a pregnant woman, is assured. Ruth’s priceless reply? “I think nature is a bit of a pain in the ass though, don’t you?”

Ruth’s attitude is understandable. She’s dealing with more than weird cravings and morning sickness. “I’m not in control,” Ruth admits. “I don’t know what’s in there. I’m scared of her.” The unborn baby is speaking to Ruth from her womb, and she’s making seriously disturbing demands.

The trailer shows Ruth meeting a man at a bar. “Kill him or I kill you,” the baby threatens. Ruth is being coached to go on a killing spree.

“Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood,” the film’s official synopsis hints.

“Prevenge” screened at Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival.

When we asked Lowe what drew her to the story, she explained, “I was pregnant and had a chance to make a film. It came about as a twisted little hybrid of an idea! Pregnancy meets revenge, and birth meets death. [I wanted to explore] the absurdity of [those combinations].” She said that audiences can view “Prevenge” “as a fun guilty pleasure slasher or as a meditation on the existentialism of pregnancy or whatever.” “I deliberately made lots of tonal shifts so that you could feel flashes of lots of different conflicting emotions — a bit like the experience of being pregnant,” she elaborated.

“Prevenge” hits theaters in the U.K. February 10. The film hasn’t secured U.S. distribution yet, but hopefully it will soon.