WASP WOMAN: MURDER OF A CULT MOVIE QUEEN

The year is 1986. Madonna is the biggest star on the planet. Oprah Winfrey debuts on national television. Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Star Trek IV and Alien II all top the box office – and in the real world, Chernobyl and Challenger top the news agenda.

In December, B-movie actress Susan Cabot is found murdered in her LA mansion. The only suspect is her son Timothy Scott Roman. With his peculiar mannerisms and childlike features, he arouses suspicion with the LAPD, who go after him. What unravels is a dark tale of Hollywood through the years and an eerie, sci-fi experiment that’s straight out of Cabot’s most notorious movie, The Wasp Woman.

Born a dwarf, Cabot’s son Roman was the subject of a U.S. government experiment – where over 700 children were injected twice-daily with an untested hormonal treatment in a bid to reverse their dwarfism. Those who survived were scarred for life.

Today, a controversial U.S. drug named Vosoritide (brand name Voxzogo) aims once again to boost dwarves’ height, and is being approved by the U.K. and the U.S. governments. The only ‘treatment’ available for dwarfism (achondroplasia), the company behind it is set to enjoy soaring profits, even as dwarf communities around the world express anger at this latest attempt at playing god – and extinguishing their kind.