The horror begins as Ayla and her high-school friends discover a hideous, semi-human mutant. They keep it prisoner while shooting repulsive viral videos, but the gang’s hunger for “likes” drives them to film the beast performing murderous acts. When one boy sees that Ayla is using the monster’s gruesome violence to settle her own vendettas, he threatens to tell the authorities, but is he too late to save his friends?
Practical Effects
The mutant creature design is gloriously disgusting practical effects.
Writing
Script savagely satirizes content creation at any cost.
Director
B. Harrison Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director B. Harrison Smith called this his 'anti-influencer' statement, casting mostly unknown teen actors to avoid 'celebrity distraction' from the message.
The creature's design was inspired by 1980s video nasty aesthetics, with the effects team using foam latex techniques considered 'obsolete' by modern standards.
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