A Most Disturbing and Funny Found-Footage Film Yields ‘Young Sexy & Dead’ (Movie Review)

YOUNG SEXY & DEAD

Rating: 7/10

Director and Writer: Philip Alderton

Style: Dark Comedy/ Mockumentary

Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Reviewed by Mike Szymanski

What a perfect time for a film about the excesses of skinny beauty and being thin — almost as if you were dead.

Director and writer Philip Alderton takes a mockumentary look at the world of modeling, photography and image-making, especially when it comes to supermodels, advertising campaigns and female beauty. A scenario like this is bound to happen, especially when kooky-creative people are given full license to do whatever they want.

The modeling characters are exaggerated and over-the-top as you might expect in this world, but suddenly their creativity and their bizarre stretch for immortality and fame take a frighteningly dark turn. This story may keep you up, thinking about how depraved we have become as a society to accept such things.