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Intent on exposing the cosmetics industry for exploiting insecurities through unrealistic beauty standards, an environmental activist falls in love with a ballerina with her own obsession with unattainable beauty, becoming dangerously drawn into the world of underground plastic surgery. Director Carlos Conceicao’s English language debut is deliciously noir-ish body horror in the David Cronenberg mould; a sensual world of beauty and flesh, put under the microscope and the scalpel.
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Bodyhackers is by Carlos Conceição, listed under Events in the Fringe programme. It is at EIFF @ Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ, 15 August to 16 August.
The show is suitable for ages 18+. Tickets are £12. Content warnings: Scenes of violence and Scenes of a sexual nature.