Scarred from the twisted abuse by her beauty obsessed mother, a teenage girl in rural Texas escapes her basement prison propelling a bloody rampage that threatens the lives of all those unlucky enough to cross her path.
SCISSOR MOUTH is a twisted female-driven horror set in rural Texas during the mid-1980s.
Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Horn has spent most of her life locked in a basement by her domineering mother, Angela, a small-town hairdresser with a criminal past and a pathological obsession with beauty. After a childhood mutilation left Elizabeth’s face hideously scarred and her mind developmentally-stunted, she’s grown up in isolation, clinging to worn-out romance tapes and twisted fantasies of love and freedom.
When Angela dies in a freak household accident, Elizabeth emerges from the shadows and begins playing dress-up in the upstairs salon. But when a local beauty queen arrives for her perm appointment, Elizabeth’s make-believe spirals into a blood-soaked game of identity, obsession, and accidental murder. As the bodies pile up and a bumbling deputy closes in, Elizabeth flees to a nearby pig farm where she finds unexpected refuge, and romance, with Charlie, the blind farmer’s son who can’t see her disfigurement but sees her soul.
Scissor Mouth is Carrie meets Beetlejuice with a splash of Misery, a blood-splattered fairy tale about beauty, repression, and a girl who finds love at the tip of a very sharp pair of scissors.
Slamdance Screenplay 2025, Second Place in Horror
Producer - Patrick Wirtz
Co-Producer - Marcus J McGill
Casting Director - Kimberly Skyrme CSA
Actor - Johnny Pemberton
