Amy Wang's SXSW winner stars Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in the story of a young woman who participates in an experimental surgery to become white. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & ...

High school, as the place where teenagers grow into the adults they want to (or believe they should) become, is all about transformation. In the horror genre, filmmakers and storytellers have found ...

A Chinese American high school student undergoes a hypothetical race-changing procedure that allows her to experience life as a white girl in Amy Wang’s SXSW-winning comedy. From the moment 8-year-old ...

Although the kind of story it told was far from original, the success of Coralie Fargeat's The Substance seems to have kicked off a trend for body horror movies that explore the psychology of women's ...

SXSW: Amy Wang's take on body horror transplants the genre into the hellscape of high school, with grim results that feel more sad than satirical.

This body horror thriller, about a Chinese American girl who undergoes a surgery to appear white, relies on dated tropes to construct a pale genre pastiche. By Brandon Yu When you purchase a ticket ...

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