Tiger Stripes

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Tiger Stripes

2024

1h 35m

Horror

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The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong woman.

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Critics Consensus

A clever and stylish riff on the body horror that is puberty, Tiger Stripes is an exuberant allegory for personal agency as well as an impressive debut for writer-director Amanda Nell Eu.

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Simran Hans

Sight & Sound

Dec 31, 2025

Amanda Nell Eu's inventive debut about a young girl's 'monstrous' transformation belongs to a proud lineage of both Malaysian folklore and coming-of-age films that externalize the onset of female puberty.

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Monica Castillo

RogerEbert.com

Jun 14, 2024

3/4

Amanda Nell Eu’s feature debut is a lively coming-of-age story that mixes the mundane and the supernatural with ease.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

Jun 14, 2024

Eu smartly weaves that universality together with local myths and legends, and the result is a little eerie and unsettling, a film about dark things we’re afraid to speak about.

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Lé Baltar

Rappler

Jul 10, 2026

Tiger Stripes does not refuse to confront this tension, to emasculate our notions of what makes up body horror, to imagine our lives outside of the moribund fate of biology.

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Kyle Logan

ScreenAnarchy

Mar 14, 2025

Tiger Stripes may not have a very original premise, but it delivers a beautiful and incisive story of the monstrous feminine that can stand alongside the great films that came before, and deserves to be just as celebrated.

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Sharai Bohannon

Dread Central

Feb 26, 2025

3.5/5

‘Tiger Stripes’ is the kind of film many of us would have loved to have as we were hitting puberty...It effectively captures the horrors of puberty alongside the awkward and uncomfortable moments that still haunt most of us.

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B P

@Bradster69 Feb 24, 2025

A Charming Piece of Period Body Horror. ‘Tiger Stripes’ is the kind of film many of us would have loved to have as we were hitting puberty. The film is like a warm hug for those who figured it all out under different chaotic circumstances. It effectively captures the horrors of puberty alongside the awkward and uncomfortable moments that still haunt most of us.

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syahirah T

@RT86706665 Dec 4, 2024

The story itself is very confusing,I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone🙅🏼‍♀️

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Hugo S

@Hugo_Shudder Aug 28, 2024

Rural Malaysia. Zaffan is a rebellious 12yo girl who has just reached puberty. She starts experiencing hideous mutations in her body, gradually transforming into a fierce animal. Rejected by other girls in school, the girl often manifests violent outbursts that seem to have a contagious effect on the other pupils. The transition to womanhood has a dramatic impact in the main character. "Tiger Stripes" unleashes the monster that is often perceived in a female body going through the process of growing up. A decent body horror movie with a visceral perspective on coming-of-age storytelling.

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bobby d

@RT56530021 Jun 17, 2024

Started out so beautifully and would have loved for the story to continue exploring attitudes and emotions, rather than becoming a total supernatural allegory devoid of human motivations.

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Synopsis

The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong woman.

Director: Amanda Nell Eu
Producer: Foo Fei Ling, Fran Borgia, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Jonas Weydemann, Ellen Havenith, Fei Ling Foo, Patrick Mao Huang, Yulia Evina Bhara
Screenwriter: Amanda Nell Eu
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Akanga Film Productions
Genre: Horror
Original Language: Malay
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 14, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 9, 2024
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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