‘Shapeless’: Grotesque Body Horror Manifests In This Shocking Exclusive Clip
The beautiful thing about horror is how it can be used to process the deepest traumas through a monstrous lens. It’s cathartic, and a way to externalize your demons as you parse through your own experiences. Writer and actor Kelly Murtagh did just that with the script for the new film Shapeless. She tapped into her own experience with disordered eating to create a nuanced and terrifying look at mental illness. She then recruited director Samantha Aldana to bring her vision to life.
In Shapeless:
Ivy, a struggling singer stuck performing in dive bars, dreams of performing in higher-end music clubs. Set in the dark kaleidoscope music-world of New Orleans, Ivy is haunted by untreated bulimia which twists her form into a hideous monster. The only way to stop her grotesque transformation from taking over – is to use her eating disorder. Ivy is stuck
in an endless cycle of binging and purging as she withdraws deeper into her own deformed psyche. She struggles to maintain a sense of normalcy as relationships with everyone in her band, her job, and her home quickly unravel as she desperately hides her bulimia and her even darker secret – she’s a monster.As she descends even deeper into the illness that controls her body and mind, her voice disturbingly deteriorates. When her big break finally comes, she is forced to face her addiction and the monsters that come with it, or risk losing everything.
Get a glimpse into Ivy’s hellish world in this exclusive clip:
Bobby Gilchrist, Jamie Neumann, Marco Dapper, Erika Ashley, Gralen Bryant Banks, and Zardis Nichols also star in Shapeless.
Murtagh wrote the script with Bryce Parsons-Twesten.
Shapeless is now playing in theaters and on Tubi.
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