Poor Things is a movie seemingly concocted in a lab to provoke conservatives. The film, which has therefore generated strong Oscar buzz ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, is now streaming on Hulu and Disney+ with a Hulu subscription, meaning curious onlookers might be tempted to watch it. They shouldn’t waste their time. 

Based on a 1992 novel, Poor Things is the coming-of-age story of a woman created by mad scientist Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). When he discovers the dead body of a pregnant woman, he reanimates her adult body after giving her the fetus’s brain. Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), thus created, is a strange specimen: a seemingly grown woman with the impulses and intellect of a toddler.