Eight minutes of pure skin-crawling dread about not wanting to be touched. Horror finally found its most relatable monster: other people's expectations.
When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.
Direction
Negri weaponizes close-ups until intimacy feels violent.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like compliments but lands like threats.
Director
Victoria Negri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released pre-pandemic but hits different post-#MeToo and growing asexual visibility in media.
MARS (the lead) is non-binary and used they/them; casting an actor outside cishet norms subtly reinforces the film's thesis about performed identity.
US
