‘Thinestra’ Trailer Satisfies a Craving for Weight-Loss Body Horror
The new trailer for ‘Thinestra’ teases a weight-loss body horror film with an insatiable hunger for bloodshed.
She lost the weight… but she can’t escape herself in the trailer for body horror film, Thinestra.
Penned by Avra Fox-Lerner, Thinestra follows “Penny (Michelle Macedo), a young woman tormented by body dysmorphia and relentless societal pressures around perfection. When Penny impulsively takes a mysterious, Ozempic-esque weight-loss drug, she experiences a horrifyingly literal transformation. The fat she sheds returns as her ravenous doppelgänger, Penelope (Melissa Macedo), and chaos ensues.”
Gavin Stenhouse (“Black Mirror”), Shannon Dang (Jump Scare), Norma Maldonado, Brian Huskey, Annie Ilonzeh and Mary Beth Barone (“Black Mirror”) also star.
Alexandra Lubenova and Kelly Parker produced.
Said director Nathan Hertz, “Body-image anxiety becomes a literal monster in this story. Penelope isn’t the villain—she’s the symptom. The real antagonist is the voice in Penny’s head that tells her she’s not enough. The film exaggerates these anxieties to grotesque levels but the feelings are incredibly common.”
Thinestra lands on streaming platforms April 14th via Breaking Glass Pictures.
