{"id":848770,"date":"2026-08-09T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848770\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:14:10","slug":"kiwi-comedy-mum-im-alien-pregnant-is-a-mad-batty-delight-review-by-michelle-langstone-in-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848770\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi comedy Mum, I\u2019m Alien Pregnant is a mad, batty delight | Review by Michelle Langstone in Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">It\u2019s a visual feast of oddity \u2014 less blood and gore, more breast milk, amniotic fluid, alien jizz and electrical currents \u2014 juxtaposed against a beautifully mundane block of flats in an unnamed New Zealand suburb. The effects, deliberately low-fi, are effective in planting this film firmly in the sci-fi genre, as the power grid is challenged by what Boo may or may not be generating with his alien-ish abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a visual feast of oddity \u2014 less blood and gore, more breast milk, amniotic fluid, alien jizz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-848770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}