Director Thomas Hardiman's debut feature Medusa Deluxe is a "deconstructed murder mystery," he tells us over Zoom, the creation of which involved "mashing things together and pulling them apart."
Glossy, camp, and drenched in neon light, Medusa Deluxe is set backstage at a regional hairdressing competition, where proceedings are thrown into disarray when a model finds the corpse of one of the competing stylists. Unlike traditional murder mysteries though, there's no detective cracking the case, and the police have a very peripheral role in the film – it's the hair models who start putting the clues together.
