Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer's horror film concerns a struggling young actress who goes to desperate lengths to secure a starring role in a movie

Giving in to a lecher might help a young actress get her foot in the door, but when the soul follows, as it does in “Starry Eyes,” the trouble begins.

Starry Eyes may leave you feeling hopeless, but its bleak vision of masochistic perfectionism is clear-eyed, cogent, and devastatingly unsettling.

The oft-told tale of a struggling actress seeking her first big break gets a juicy new spin in the psychodrama/body-horror hybrid “Starry Eyes.”