Ahead of its World Premiere at SXSW we have a first-look festival teaser for THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK.
In THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK, after a tragic event, Yvonne (Zoë Chao) drives down to her friend Camille's (Callie Hernandez) bucolic new home for some time away. She's welcomed by A.J. (James Cusati-Moyer) and Isaac (Jeremy O. Harris), two new friends of Camille. The group promises a weekend of homemade meals from fresh, local produce and parlor games by candlelight. But when Yvonne develops troubling symptoms from a tick bite, the rural paradise fades away revealing a breeding ground for a disturbing new life.
Multi-hyphenate filmmaker Pete Ohs (2022 SXSW breakout Jethica) returns with THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK, another playfully label-defying genre mash-up shot in two weeks. Inspired by a trip to Western Massachusetts and the looming possibility of tick bites, Ohs and his collaborators built a story around the millennial terror of modern adulthood.
THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK harnesses queer eroticism and folk horror to take a look at modern existence and question how the fears of a generation of people reaching adulthood have impacted the ways in which they navigate the world. They’ve removed themselves from the natural cycle of life, but at what cost? And if one little tick bite could change all that, would you too run through fields of tall grass into an adulthood free of fear and anxiety?
THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK will have its World Premiere at SXSW Friday March 7.