“Get Out” meets high school in a reverse twist where a young Asian teen is willing to die to become white. Body horror film “Slanted,” written and directed by Amy Wang, stars “Dìdi” breakout Shirley Chen as Joan Huang, an insecure Chinese American teenager who opts to undergo an experimental trans-racial surgery to be white in order to secure her chances of winning Prom Queen. Mckenna Grace plays the transformed Joan Huang.

The official synopsis reads: “As a senior in high school, Joan Huang (Chen) idolizes winning Prom Queen as the embodiment of popularity, beauty, and the ultimate form of acceptance into American life. In her relentless pursuit for the crown, she undergoes an experimental racial transformation to become White and win Prom Queen. However, what she thought was a dream come true soon reveals itself to be an emotional and physical nightmare.”

The film is billed as a “searing...