2025 · 128 min

Alpha

Name: Alpha
Director: Julia Ducournau
Released: 2025-08-20

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

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Quick Facts

Confidence: MODERATE

Status: Provisional

Director: Julia Ducournau

Why It's Disturbing

A troubled 13-year-old’s unexplained tattoo introduces unsettling body-horror elements against a bleak backdrop involving disease, pandemic fears, and a strained mother-daughter relationship.

Psychological20

Gore8

Bleakness18

Realism20

Dread20

Violence15

Body Horror81

Taboo8

Lingering Impact20

20.4

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How disturbing is Alpha?

Alpha has a DreadQ Score of 19/100. The score reflects psychological impact, dread, bleakness, violence, gore, realism and other disturbance dimensions.

Is Alpha gory?

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