Synopsis
Helter Skelter (2012) is a Japanese drama-horror you can watch online on iFILM. Lilico is the model of the moment, her face on every cover, held up by the whole country as the standard of beauty. What almost no one knows: that beauty was assembled by surgeons in a private clinic.
Then her body starts to take revenge. Blotches surface on the skin, the work begins to fail, the side effects creep upward — and her career, her relationships and her mind go down with them. Lilico lashes out at her assistant, her lovers, anyone within reach, clawing to hold an ideal that's already slipping. Erika Sawajiri throws herself into the unraveling without a shred of vanity. It's adapted from Kyoko Okazaki's cult manga.
Director Mika Ninagawa, better known as a photographer, floods every frame with acid color — pink, gold, blood. The result is a vicious portrait of the beauty industry and the hunger to be looked at. For viewers with steady nerves who lean toward feverish, image-driven cinema. Stream Helter Skelter (2012) online on iFILM.
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