In order to maintain her image, Jo must literally peel bits of her skin off. Slanted edges into body horror as the teen’s anguish subsumes her. She becomes so preoccupied with hiding her molting ...

Slanted will inevitably draw comparisons to Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (body horror for social issues), Mean Girls (humorous distillation of contemporary high-school culture) and Didi (earnest ...

Slanted comes from Mountain Top Pictures and ... to feel gritty but have that satirical [element] and the body horror. That was kind of difficult to balance, for sure,” Wang told Deadline.