102 minutes – Horror
Language: English
Festival release date: August 27, 2012 – Film4 Fright Fest
Release date: October 18, 2012
Production companies: American Mary Productions, Evolution Pictures
Distributor: IndustryWorks Pictures

Surgical student Mary is broke and desperate for money. When she applies for work at a strip club, the owner, Billy Barker, asks if she can patch up a man bleeding in the club’s basement. An obvious victim of some illegal enterprise, Mary is offered $5,000 to perform emergency surgery. While she is happy to have the money, Mary spends the next few days terrified that the criminal activity she got involved in will follow her home. Later, Mary is approached by Beatress Johnson, a stripper at the club who has had extreme plastic surgery to make herself resemble the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop. She offers Mary a large sum of money to perform illegal surgery on her friend, Ruby Realgirl, who wishes to be transformed into a human doll, and has been unable to find a surgeon willing to complete the last step in her transformation. Mary begins her residency in the surgical specialty, and her teachers and mentors praise her promising skills, but no one knows how far she can, and will, go.

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