Shudder’s ‘Hellcat’ Unleashes a Brutal, Insane Transformation Sequence

EXCLUSIVE: Shudder has just set loose a wild beast with Hellcat, and today we have an exclusive look at the film.

Lena (Dakota Gorman) wakes in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginable fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?

In this clip, Lena goes through a horrific, painful, and brutal transformation. This looks like a must-watch this weekend.

Todd Terry, James Austin Johnson, Liz Atwater, Jordan Mullins, Elise Gilbert, and Janey Ivey also star.

Brock Bodell wrote and directed the film.

In her review out of Fantasia 2025, former Dread EIC Mary Beth McAndrews wrote that the film “takes the conventions and expectations of a monster movie and flips them on their head to craft a tense, single-location nightmare about a feral femme’s battle for bodily autonomy.”

Unleash Hellcat when the film streams exclusively on Shudder August 14th.