{"id":437726,"date":"2026-01-29T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:11:09","slug":"body-horror-comedy-slanted-starring-shirley-chen-mckenna-grace-sets-march-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437726\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Horror Comedy &#8216;Slanted&#8217; Starring Shirley Chen &#038; Mckenna Grace Sets March Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If The Substance and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3929881\/the-beauty-offers-skin-deep-satire-thats-a-botched-ugly-embarrassment-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Beauty<\/a>\u201d have you in the mood for more satirical body horror, mark your calendar for Slanted.<\/p>\n<p>The teen body horror comedy will open in theaters nationwide on March 13 via Bleecker Street.<\/p>\n<p>It follows Joan Huang, who idolizes the popular girls and dreams of being prom queen, but fears the only way to win is to look like all the past queens whose portraits line her high school halls.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Ethnos: a mysterious cosmetic surgery clinic that turns people of color white. Joan undergoes the procedure and wakes up a beautiful blonde destined for the crown, but at what cost?<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Chen (D\u00ecdi), Mckenna Grace (Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2), Vivian Wu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (\u201cNever Have I Ever\u201d), Amelie Zilber (\u201cGrown-ish\u201d), and Fang Du star.<\/p>\n<p>Writer-director Amy Wang (\u201cThe Brothers Sun\u201d) makes her feature debut on the project, which premiered at last year\u2019s SXSW and took home the Narrative Grand Jury Award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlanted offers a searing and unapologetically satirical view of race and what it is to be white,\u201d said Wang. \u201cAt the heart of this movie is a Chinese girl who just wants to feel accepted as an American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continues, \u201cThis is a deeply personal film that digs into your insecurities and exposes the twisted realities of a fractured identity. I have made this movie in the hopes that by exposing my wounds as a Chinese Australian woman I can help others heal their own self-doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Tideline Entertainment and Mountain Top Pictures, producers include Wang, Trevor Wall, Adel \u201cFuture\u201d Nur, Cameron Boling, and Mark Ankner.<\/p>\n<p>Meagan Navarro <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3858694\/slanted-dead-lover-tick-sxsw-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in her review<\/a>, \u201cAs personal as Slanted feels, the superficial nature of its satire winds up softening a lot of its sharper edges. That likely suits its teen demographic well but won\u2019t be as winsome for seasoned horror fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Slanted.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If The Substance and \u201cThe Beauty\u201d have you in the mood for more satirical body horror, mark your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,45294,206,206746,206747],"class_list":{"0":"post-437726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mckenna-grace","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-shirley-chen","12":"tag-vivian-wu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}