FERAL FEMALE (2025)

New On Demand, VHS, & DVD from Frolic Films!
Directed/Written by Jared Masters.
Check out the trailer here!!

An eccentric hunter (played by writer/director Jared Masters) is called into to track down and capture a feral female (Kate Lý Johnston) who is traipsing topless around the LA hills and murdering random people.

Having covered indie horror for the last, what is it, fifteen years, I’ve covered almost all of Jared Masters and Frolic Films’ releases, so I know what to expect from them—over the top acting, low key effects, a slight horror concept, campy humor, and a drag queen or two. Masters basically has taken the blueprint of John Water’s earlier films and crossed them with some of the more surreal, art scene portraits of LA reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s experimentals and maybe toss in a little Greg Araki feels for good measure. The result is always something interesting but never mainstream. So if you’re looking for a polished movie for the masses, FERAL FEMALE isn’t it.

But FERAL FEMALE is a gaudy and violent little number that gives you exactly what the title promises. There is barely a story going on here. Masters instead simply shows the feral female attacking one lone person or a pair of people over and over again until the credits roll. Master does appear in front of the camera here, which is something I haven’t noticed in previous works, and gives a goofy and over the top performance trying to imitate the late great Steve Irwin. He is introduced late in the movie to bring some kind of challenge for the feral female.

It ain’t Shakespeare. Hell, it ain’t even Troma. But it is a topless hottie trouncing around and acting like a puma for an hour and a half in the desert. If anything, I’m glad there are DIY directors still out there like Jared Masters proving that he continues to carry that indie horror torch that is a crucial part of the genre of horror.