Embryo

Embryo (Embrión, 2020) is a Chilean body-horror you can watch online on iFILM. Evelyn and her boyfriend Kevin pitch a tent in the woods for an ordinary weekend — until something descends in the night and takes her.

By morning she seems unharmed, but a thing is already growing inside her. First an odd hunger, then a pull toward raw meat, then toward human flesh. Kevin is left to figure out whether he's still rescuing his girlfriend or running from the creature wearing her skin. Director Patricio Valladares, a fixture of lean, grimy genre cinema, keeps it to 72 minutes, a handful of locations and a steady ratchet of dread over costly effects. Romina Perazzo carries the lead. It's short, ugly and not for the squeamish — catnip if you love merciless early-Cronenberg-style splatter, a hard pass otherwise. Stream Embryo (2020) online on iFILM.