Suffering from mental illness and opiate addiction, Charli struggles to hold it all together, often leaving behind a wake of destruction. As Charli begins to lose her fragile grip on reality, her demons lead her down a dangerous path with no way out.
Acting
Kate Lý Johnston's descent is genuinely uncomfortable to witness.
Direction
Mallery keeps you trapped in Charli's fractured subjectivity.
Director
Rich Mallery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 12 days on a microbudget, with Johnston reportedly staying in character between takes to maintain the psychological strain.
Released during the fentanyl crisis escalation, it joins a wave of indie horror using addiction as metaphor for possession—except here the monster is capitalism and broken healthcare.
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