“Reproductive techno-horror” is a burgeoning genre on screen

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers

STORIES ABOUT reproductive technology lend themselves to two genres. One is comedy. In films such as “Delivery Man”, artificial insemination is the premise for a farce: as reproduction happens in sterile Petri dishes, not between the sheets, there is room for mishaps involving multiple babies and mixed-up identities. Most tales of this kind end happily, with sperm donors embracing the strangers they helped to create.