Shelley is a 2016 Danish drama horror film directed and co-written by Ali Abbasi (in his feature directorial debut) and stars Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Peter Christoffersen as a couple who, faced with the inability to bear children, arrange for their Romanian maid (Cosmina Stratan) to be a surrogate mother, soon leading to increasingly sinister events as the due date approaches.

One night during a bath, Elena reacts with pain when the water touches her, causing her to snap and beat at her own belly while screaming that she wants the child out.

Later that night, Louise finds Elena wandering around in a daze, having attacked and attempted to eat a live chicken from their coop.

Shelley begins to demonstrate some of the same strange behavior as Elena: the chickens fear her, and she screams in pain when water is poured on her.

Rushing outside, she finds Shelley with Kaspar, who has shut them both in the car with the engine running in an apparent murder-suicide attempt via carbon monoxide.

Shaken, Louise sits on the bed with Shelley as an unidentified figure in black stands in the room with them before suddenly disappearing.

[3] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generaly favourable reviews".