Model Hunger

Fun modern horror. PQ is great with some cool features. Great release.

Two things make 'Model Hunger' extremely effective: Lynn Lowry's performance and Debbie Rochon's directing.

'Model Hunger' is about a former pin-up model driven crazy by how she was discarded by the industry, and turns to covertly murdering and cannibalizing her neighbors and any young woman she encounters.

Shot in the early 2010s, Debbie's use of the digital film aesthetic captures the just-off aspects of an already pretty distorted upstate New York. Debbie's direction also elevates the concept as, in the hands of a male director the torture could lean into the realm of fetishism whereas Debbie capture what deeply unsettling horror is on-screen.

Lynn Lowry is still an incredible, incredible actress and dedicates herself to every syllable in every scene. Just tremendous and sells the whole thing.

Tiffany Shepis and Suzi Lorraine are also fantastic here, adding to both the humanity of the viewer and the surreal peril of the world of the film.

It's 84 minutes but the agony makes it feel longer, and I mean that as a compliment. Truly among the best of the subgenre. Recommended.

Very cheesy and low budget, but lots of fun with familiar faces. Recommended.

I always support this indie powerhouse when i can. Nice musing on an aging starlet as an antagonist. I'd recommend it to any Debbie Rochon or Lynn Lowry fan. Beautiful and talented Tiffany Shepis too

Feels like Debbie's working on some personal demons in this, which is believable knowing what actresses have gone through, but I just wish the movie itself was a little stronger to put some oomph behind it. There's good messages, but it gets drowned out by the bog-standard Tubi level storytelling and aesthetics. There's at least enough weirdness here worth seeing, such as a guy eating ice cream with his ******* out pointing towards the camera while him and his wife watch Babbette Bombshell on tv eating donuts by a dumpster while whimsical music plays. That's something you don't get to see often, or even a sentence you get to write much. Also makes me miss the days when the likes of Tiffany Shepis, or even Debbie herself, were in 30 movies a year. It was comforting.