Wolf Girl (2001 film)

Wolf Girl (alternate title Blood Moon) is a 2001 Canadian/Romanian horror thriller about a girl who travels with a freak show because of her rare genetic disorder called hypertrichosis.

Plot
Teenage girl Tara has a disease and hair growing all over her body and her face (hypertrichosis). She was born into a travelling Freak show circus and is the main attraction as Wolf Girl. Tara, often ridiculed by local teens, finds a friend in Ryan whose mother happens to work on an experimental depilatory treatment. Desperately longing to be normal, Tara starts to secretly inject herself with the drug, but unaware of the dangerous side effects... The animal within starts to reveal itself.

Cast

 * Victoria Sanchez – Tara the Wolf Girl
 * Shelby Fenner – Krystal
 * Shawn Ashmore – Beau
 * Tony Denman – Cory
 * Nate Dushku – Whiffer
 * Dov Tiefenbach – Ryan Klein
 * Tim Curry – Harley Dune
 * Grace Jones – Christoph/Christine
 * Darlene Cates – Athena the Fat Lady
 * Lesley Ann Warren - Dr. Klein (Ryan's mother)
 * Jordan Prentice - Fingers Finnian
 * Petruta Panait - Olga the Rubber Girl
 * Ana Maria Bazalan - Nadja the Rubber Girl
 * Scott McClelland - The Amazing Pin Cushion
 * Vasile Voinovici - The Human Tadpole
 * Nelu Dinu - Hans the Human Torso
 * Visinel - Buster the Crab Man
 * Ioana Cristescu - Tara's mother

Trivia

 * Istvan Betyar, who played the Sword swallower, is actually a co-founder of The Blue Mushroom Sirkus Psyshow.
 * Scott McClelland, who played The Amazing Pin Cushion, is actually a professional sideshow performer, and runs a show called Carnival Diablo.