The Scorpion: Beauty and Madness in the Pursuit of Dreams

Production Details

Title: The Scorpion

Format: Feature Film

Production Begins: Active Development (2026)

Filming Location: Los Angeles

Producer: Raechel Zarzynski – Garrett Recker – Kathy Sue Holtorf – Greg Elam – Corey Moosa

Writer/Director: Zachary Allard

DP: Davon Slininger

Cast: Sonja O’Hara – Sebiye Behtiyar

The Scorpion follows Kit (O’Hara), a struggling young woman whose dream of launching her own clothing line has stalled. Desperate for money, she accepts a mysterious job at a cutting-edge cosmetics lab that claims to have eliminated animal testing in favor of willing human participants. As Kit becomes increasingly entangled in the lab’s bizarre experiments — involving perfumes, chemicals, and invasive procedures — her life begins to improve, even as disturbing physical and psychological changes begin to surface.

Production Companies:

Exile Entertainment

732 El Medio Ave.
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

exile_ent@yahoo.com
Phone: 310-573-1523

A Group Of Ferrets
business@agroupofferrets.com

About The Scorpion

The Scorpion tells the story of Kit, a young woman intent on starting her own clothing line. Facing challenges in pursuing her passion, she takes a job at a forward-thinking cosmetics lab that promotes human participation over animal testing. As Kit delves deeper into her role, she is drawn into unusual experiments that blur the lines of ethics and safety. While her professional life takes a turn for the better, the unconventional methods of the lab lead to troubling changes in Kit’s health and psyche. The film explores themes of ambition, morality, and the consequences of innovation in the beauty industry.