There’s a secret at the heart of The Beldham – and the audience and new mother Harper are the ones trying to figure it out. The new psychological horror received its North American premiere on Friday at the Austin Film Festival. The maternal horror focuses on Harper (played by Halt and Catch Fire’s Katie Parker), who is fighting to save her newborn child from the Beldham, a birdlike figure who steals the breath from babies. Yet the black wings and black cloak of the Beldham hide a secret, the kind that, once revealed, makes the viewer reconsider every scene, every interaction, that’s gone before – and that’s exactly the response that writer/director Angela Gulner wants to elicit.