Good Girls Get Fed
2023 · 21m · United States
Directed by Kelly Lou Dennis
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
When three captive women are forced into twisted challenges to earn food, they work together to find an escape — not realizing a new darkness has awakened in their midst.
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The scouts
Most survival-thriller scripts milk the obvious beats—escape, survive, credits roll—but Dennis flips it by weaponizing solidarity itself, turning the women's own collaboration into the real trap; that's the kind of premise that makes you furious you didn't think of it first.
The film sits uncomfortably between exploitation narrative and psychological study, which could read as uncertain direction, but Dennis appears deliberately unsettled about its own genre—that formal ambivalence places it in conversation with horror that questions its own appetite.
The structural pivot where rescue becomes complicity hinges entirely on a single performance beat of recognition, and Kelly Lou Dennis doesn't telegraph it; that moment of clarity landing in silence rather than dialogue is the kind of micro-choice that separates craft from competence.
Festivals
- Dances With Films 2023
- Chattanooga Film Festival 2026