THE FUSE

An era of rising anxieties around pregnancy and motherhood has spurred a recent mini-explosion in horror films revolving around such topics, many decades after “Rosemary’s Baby” broke that particular ice. Andrea Corsini’s debut feature “Ferine,” which expands on his same-named 2019 short, manages to mingle a paranoiac, violent take on the same themes with a creature-transformation conceit a la “Cat People.” Like Paul Schrader’s 1982 version of the latter, this is an upscale genre piece whose pretensions towards Art are upfront, starting with a quotation from no less than Schopenhauer.