With her first two feature films, 2016's subversive cannibal chiller Raw and 2021 object sexuality body horror Titane , French director Julia Ducournau announced herself as one of the boldest genre filmmakers working today. And if the first trailer for Alpha — Ducournau's latest mononymously titled movie — is anything to go by, then that status isn't about to change anytime soon. A coming-of-age tale with a now-trademark Ducournau body horror twist, Alpha follows a teenage girl (Mélissa Boros) who gets a dodgy tattoo and consequently finds herself afflicted with a new disease that's turning people to marble, much to the horror of her single mother (Golshifteh Farahani). Sound wild? Well it looks it, too — just check out the trailer:

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