Described as "Angela Carter rewriting La Belle et la Bête as an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer", the story follows, through a tapestry of dreamlike images, a girl (Sarah Livingston Evans) and her three friends—the characters' names are never revealed—as they find themselves stranded in a dark and surreal forest by someone—or something (Edward Gusts)—who has obsessively loved, watched, and waited for the girl ever since childhood.
Practical Effects
Creature design on a shoestring that commits fully.
Direction
Student film ambition with genuine visual poetry.
Costume
Spike's tutu and thorn-crown aesthetic is unforgettable.
Director
Robert Beaucage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Angela Carter comparison is deliberate—like her work, this interrogates fairy tale misogyny through grotesque body horror.
Edward Gusts performed entirely in a full creature suit during a sweltering summer shoot; the visible exhaustion became accidental pathos.
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