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Shell

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Shell

2024

1h 40m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Struggling actress Samantha is given an opportunity to get a free trial at Shell, a pioneering health and beauty company which promises to keep its clients looking young forever. Samantha's life and career is transformed by the treatment, and she develops a burgeoning friendship with Shell's CEO, the ultra-glamorous Zoe Shannon. When a string of former Shell patients go missing under mysterious circumstances, including popular social media star Chloe Benson, Samantha starts to fear she may be in danger herself.

Jourdain Searles

The Hollywood Reporter

Ultimately, Shell’s observations about the beauty industry are only skin-deep.

Sep 17, 2024

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Katie Rife

IndieWire

When it accepts its destiny as a ‘50s-style rubber-suit sci-fi monster movie, Shell does have camp value to it. Even then, it still doesn’t commit to the bit hard enough to make it successful.

Rated: C

Sep 13, 2024

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Minghella crafts an escapist love letter to ’90s cinema. Its revolving door of genres and cheeky sense of humor makes for a welcome trip down memory lane.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 13, 2024

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

Equally campy, hilarious, and disgusting, the film operates in a space inhabited by cult classics like “The Fly” and “Tusk,” but it never fully commits to the depth its premise seems to promise.

Jan 9, 2025

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

A film that plays like a really subpar Michael Crichton medical thriller from the ‘70s or ‘80s wasting Elisabeth Moss while films like The Substance lays it to waste

Rated: 1/4

Oct 16, 2024

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Andrea Thompson

A Reel of One's Own

In an age where beauty influencers have become the new gurus, promising fulfillment on the inside and out, the movie wastes any potential Zoe has for great villain status...

Sep 30, 2024

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Struggling actress Samantha is given an opportunity to get a free trial at Shell, a pioneering health and beauty company which promises to keep its clients looking young forever. Samantha's life and career is transformed by the treatment, and she develops a burgeoning friendship with Shell's CEO, the ultra-glamorous Zoe Shannon. When a string of former Shell patients go missing under mysterious circumstances, including popular social media star Chloe Benson, Samantha starts to fear she may be in danger herself.

Director: Max Minghella
Producer: Fred Berger, Alicia Van Couvering, Norman Golightly, Max Minghella, Lindsey McManus, Elisabeth Moss, Hal Sadoff, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Screenwriter: Jack Stanley
Production Co: Range Media Partners, Blank Tape, Love & Squalor Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 40m