Beastly

• Romance
• Fantasy
• Drama

A visually striking and deliberately unsettling romantic fantasy, *Beastly* subverts the familiar "Beauty and the Beast" archetype by grounding its transformative curse in the harsh realities of high school social dynamics and superficiality. Instead of seeking internal beauty, the spoiled protagonist’s external disfigurement forces a confronting journey of self-reckoning with rejection and loneliness, stripped of privilege and reliant on the unconventional empathy of a woman trapped by her own circumstance. The film doesn’t aim for fairytale escapism, but rather a bleakly lit exploration of insecurity and the isolating effects of judging others, offering a bittersweet portrait of connection forged through shared vulnerability rather than idealized romance.