Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Model Hunger'

Written by Scott Edwards

Getting older is not fun for anyone, especially when your body begins to change in ways you never expected. While there are some ways to slow this down, you can never stop it completely, you just need to be comfortable with who you are and deal with it the best way that you can. It can be disappointing to see how others may view you when this starts to happen, but it is what will happen to them as well and they will be treated the same way. You might not look like the people that are on TV or in the magazines, but as long as you are happy with yourself, you should not let any of these people get you down.

Ginny Reilly has passed her prime, but is still looking back on what forced her out of being one of the top models in the industry. Keeping to herself, Ginny lives alone and hardly makes contact with her neighbors, but her new one Debbie Lombardo is keeping an eye on her. When two young cheerleaders show up at her door trying to sell their fundraising stuff, Ginny can only think about one thing, how terrible the two girls are and how they flaunt their goods for everyone to see. Drugging and taking them down to the basement for a life changing experience, Ginny knows that what she is doing is right.

Moving into their new home, Sal is ready to start living it up, but Debbie wants to be back in New York. Suffering from anxiety, Debbie jumps at every sound that she hears and while she has medication to control this, she does not want to deal with any of it. When hearing strange things coming out of her next door neighbor’s house, she worries that there is something terrible happening over there, but does not know exactly what. While keeping an eye on the older woman’s activities, Debbie notices that the car out front has changed and does not know what is happening behind the closed doors, but knows that Ginny is up to no good.

After selling the cheerleaders car, Ginny drives home only to see a young woman standing on the side of the road looking for a ride. Picking her up and finding out that the girl wants to make her way to New York to be a model, Ginny listens to her complaints about her body. Knowing that this girl knows nothing about life, much less what real beauty is, she knocks out the stranger and shows her what she has learned over the years. Cutting the flesh from her thighs, Ginny is taking care of one of the body parts that the girl is not happy with. Knowing that she is being watched by her neighbor, Ginny decides to make a peace offering to her and with some great seasoned meat with a little bit of dope in it, she is hopping to make Debbie her next meal. But when Debbie refuses the meal and her husband Sal eats it all, Ginny will have to wait a bit longer to plan her next meal, but with so many people coming to her door on a regular basis, she never has a shortage of fresh food.

I have been waiting to see this movie for several months now after seeing the project go up on Debbie Rochon’s Twitter Feed. With so many of the actresses that I have loved in horror movies being involved, I knew that it would be a great movie and with this being Debbie's film directorial debut, I was not disappointed at all. Ginny has lost her mind after losing her top model spot due to her changing body type and that pushed her way over the edge. Keeping an eye out for the beautiful girls, at least the ones that think that they are beautiful, Ginny is more than happy to dish out revenge upon them, even though it is not them, but society that has made body shaming all right. I am not a fan of inner dialogue in movies, but in Model Hunger, it is done the right way and I was impressed that it did not turn me off. With plenty of disturbing scenes, you get to see how Ginny has decided to live in the world that she has been thrown out of and will not stop in her current goals, even if someone catches her in the act. This is a movie that you will need to get on DVD for sure since the extras are fantastic. There is a movie score only track that will only play the music throughout and in any good horror movie, there has to be a good score to go with it, plus the outtakes of Lloyd Kaufman and Debbie Rochon are just fantastic and the New Jersey Meathook line still continues to have me snickering whenever I think about it.  Stay Scared!

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