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Pregnancy Horror 'False Positive' Doesn't Deliver

Hulu's horror-thriller about a woman (Ilana Glazer) who begins to suspect there's something sinister about her pregnancy grasps at many ideas without developing them.
Lucy (Ilana Glazer) undergoes a procedure in Hulu's <em>False Positive</em>.

Hulu's horror film aches to evoke the sick, helpless, enveloping dread into which Mia Farrow's character so famously descended in Roman Polanski's 1968 classic . And there's a lot it gets right, in the early going anyway, as it forces us to watch as the young, pregnant Lucy (Ilana Glazer) gets treated with polite but determined

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