Kalley's Last Review
2020 · 9m · USA
Directed by Julia Bailey Johnson
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
Beauty vlogger Kalley films her first sponsored skincare review — determined to finish no matter what the peel does to her face.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
One-woman beauty-vlogger body horror — the format is the joke and the joke can sustain nine minutes. Smart, mean, exactly the kind of indie horror that's earned its ALTER slot.
Johnson writing, directing, shooting, and starring in a one-woman beauty-influencer body-horror is the precise weaponization of vlog format the moment deserves — Funny Games rendered as content. A sharp single-author premise.
9 minutes shot, directed, written, and performed solo by Julia Bailey Johnson on ALTER — the format-as-weapon trick (beauty-vlog tutorial becomes body horror) only works if the performer commits to the bit through actual physical collapse. 6.2M views says it works.