It’s definitely aliens: Teen girls save the world in genre-bending Snatchers

Enlarge / Sara (Mary Nepi) and Hayley (Gabrielle Elyse) team up to save their Arizona town from an alien invasion in Snatchers. (credit: Stage 13)
A teen pregnancy goes horribly awry in Snatchers, a charming genre-bending send-up of B-movie creature features, infused with the anything-goes spontaneity of sketch comedy. The horror/comedy debuted last weekend at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
(Mild spoilers for Snatchers below.)
High school student Sara (Mary Nepi) is pretty and popular, but she's also just been dumped by her hunky boyfriend, Skyler (Austin Fryberger) because she wanted to wait to have sex. He tells her he's 'changed' during his trip to Mexico over the summer and now has 'different priorities'—essentially he's turned into a mass of teenage hormones seeking any outlet for release. Desperate to hang onto her social status, Sara relents to his advances, but they don't use protection. She wakes up a day later not just pregnant, but fully nine months pregnant. And what she's carrying is definitely not a baby but some parasitic alien creature that shoots out from her uterus like a bloody cannonball. Things just get weirder (and gorier) from there.
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