Living in Los Angeles, a beauty influencer trying to get over a scandal in her career, meets a woman who soon steers her into a bizarre world of madness, obsession, and psychosis as she starts a downward spiral not just in her career but in her sanity, the more they stay together.
This was a mess of a film that has a few redeeming qualities. One of the only positive factors here is the way this one starts to showcase the fractured sanity and mindset that develops in the film. Starting with her already on edge due to the initial controversy that she faces with her rival being disfigured over a regiment that she promoted only to forgo any kind of public apology, the stalker who's threatening to get ever closer to her, and the general state of the world she lives in, there's a great opening point that allows the downward spiral to come about naturally. The more she gets involved with the seedy figures in the world around her, the more her degenerate status and mindset affect what she does, seeming genuinely and openly appropriate. By the time everything comes to the forefront and it features the whole comeuppance angle at the end, providing some bloody deaths, all of which give this some enjoyable elements. Aside from this, there's little about this one that seems to be worthwhile. The most egregious factor in this one is that there's just nothing interesting about the universe being presented here, and it's insanely difficult to care about anything. With the opening painting her as a callous, uncaring, and just plain obnoxious millennial beauty influencer who's terrible at her job, never makes any interesting content, and spends her life trying to partake in that lifestyle, it becomes an uphill battle to remain invested in her or her plight by the five minute mark before anything starts happening. As nothing is particularly glamorous or appealing about the drug-infused lifestyle her friends get her into, not even the downward spiral has any stakes, with it seemingly obvious what's going on and nothing to be gained from getting her hooked on the lifestyle. That all makes for a distressing and generally underwhelming feature.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity, drug use, and sex scenes.
