Glazed donuts. Sweet circles of sin. Everybody knows the siren call of Krispy Kreme when that red neon sign blazes like the gates of heaven. But in the trailer for Nathan Hertz’s new body horror Thinestra, donuts aren’t salvation. They’re damnation.

One character screams their love for donuts like it’s gospel. The screen answers with visions you can’t unsee. A wall of donuts, towering, pulsing, almost alive. It’s frosting as nightmare fuel. How many calories in that shrine of glaze? Doesn’t matter. Calories don’t kill you. This movie might.

Thinestra comes hot off a Vortex Award win at the Island International Film Festival, and if the trailer’s any clue, Hertz is gunning for your stomach, your nerves, and maybe your midnight snack habits.

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Donuts were never this dangerous.

Here’s the synopsis. A miracle drug delivers the overnight weight loss you’ve always dreamed of. But will it turn you into a walking nightmare? It’s a sweltering Christmas in LA. Penny—plagued by body dysmorphia and cycles of binge eating—impulsively takes Thinestra, a mysterious Ozempic-like drug. That night, she violently expels masses of fat in a painful and grotesque purge. But her discarded flesh returns… and like the Hyde to Penny’s Jekyll, PENELOPE is born. As her ravenous dopplegänger wreaks bloody havoc, Penny struggles to regain control. Can she overcome her hunger before it’s too late?

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