Beauty has a price. This apothecary takes cash, cards, and souls.
When an aging supermodel’s (played by Claudia Sulewski) appeal begins to dim, she visits a magical apothecary in hopes of revitalizing her appearance but quickly learns that beauty comes at a price.
Acting
Sulewski's unraveling glamour is genuinely uncomfortable.
Cinematography
Saturated perfection curdling into something rotten.
Production
The apothecary set deserves its own spin-off series.
Director
Caroline Iaffaldano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released amid Ozempic discourse and 'aging gracefully' debates, this hits different. The horror isn't the apothecary—it's the demand for it.
Director Iaffaldano used practical effects for the transformation sequences, rejecting clean CGI to make the horror feel intimate and unclean.
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