“Thinestra”, the new horror feature film US director Nathan Hertz and writer Avra Fox-Lerner is set for its US premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
The film, which stars twin sisters Melissa and Michelle Macedo, has also been announced for the Brigadoon section of the Sitges Film Festival in Spain between October 9th and 19th!
A miracle drug delivers the overnight weight loss you’ve always dreamed of. But will it turn you into a walking nightmare? It’s a sweltering Christmas in LA.
Penny—plagued by body dysmorphia and cycles of binge eating—impulsively takes Thinestra, a mysterious Ozempic-like drug.
That night, she violently expels masses of fat in a painful and grotesque purge. But her discarded flesh returns… and like the Hyde to Penny’s Jekyll, PENELOPE is born.
As her ravenous dopplegänger wreaks bloody havoc, Penny struggles to regain control. Can she overcome her hunger before it’s too late?
Styled as “The Substance” on Ozempic, “Thinestra” imagines a world not dissimilar from today in which quick weight loss drugs are readily available, but there is a price to pay. The cast also features Mary Beth Barone (“Overcompensating”), Brian Husky (“Veep”), Annie Ilonzeh (“SWAT”), Gavin Stenhouse (“Black Mirror”), and Shannon Dang (“Kung Fu”). “Thinestra” is produced by Alexandra Lubenova’s Dogplayer & Kelly Parker’s Mary Ellen Moffat, alongside Hitmaker’s Media and Stay Lucky Studios. Hertz, Joe Wesley, and both Macedo sisters act as executive producers.
The film has been covered by various international outlets including Deadline and Screen International and enjoyed its world premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in June. The worldwide sales rights have been picked up by Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company.
Speaking about screening at Raindance, Hertz has said:
“”Thinestra” is my Cronenberg-inspired love letter to the Ozempic age—a surreal chapter where body image and capitalism collide, promising, perhaps for the first time, a manufactured “cure” for fat. For those of us who have worn our bodies like burdens—part calorie-counting prison, part public shame—the temptation is almost mythic. This aching divide between flesh and self, the longing to escape the vessel we inhabit, pulses at the core of Body Horror. Raindance has always been a sanctuary for the bold and the bizarre, and I’m deeply honoured to bring “Thinestra” to a festival that embraces the strange, the urgent, and the unmistakably human.”
Watch the trailer for Thinestra below –
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