I first heard about Chet Turner’s film Slice on one of the eunuch Discord servers and was immediately curious. Given Freud’s insistence that every male carries castration anxiety, you’d think horror films about castration would be everywhere. Instead, they’re vanishingly rare – which makes Slice all the more intriguing.

What the film is

Slice is an anthology framed around a recovery group. A female group member begins sharing a “true” story about someone she knows who got himself cut for money to fund an out‑of‑control drug addiction. That story becomes the first film in the anthology.

The addict is asked a few pointed questions about procreative desires – perhaps just to underline that this is a one‑way street.

Much of the anthology has the atmosphere of Eyes Wide Shut – perhaps even closer to what Eyes Wide Shut was trying to be. It’s more menacing, especially given the cultural sensitivity most men have around their genitals. There are glimpses of anatomy, but this isn’t a titillation piece, so don’t get excited on that score. We do, however, see one eunuch’s scrotal void, accompanied by a brief conversation about the benefits of castration: calmness, submissiveness, and – importantly – a desire to belong. The man showing his results is actually quite sexy, which challenges the tired stereotype of eunuchs as flabby, effeminate creatures.

At one point, a volunteer says:

I feel great knowing that I can share my voyage with others. A different form of human, neither man nor woman.

A sentiment many of us in the community can relate to, even if the line was fed to him.

Community echoes

Watching Slice made me think of the contributors to the Discord Captions server, which specialises in kinky castration captions. These are almost exclusively from a straight perspective – as is the film – with sexy girls in the altogether getting cold.

Participants in the film are drugged, and the elastrator is used. A Burdizzo might have been fun for that wonderfully sickening crunch followed by the scream – there’s a thought for the next movie, Mr Director.

There’s even cannibalism of the removed testicles, including feeding them to the volunteer – a strong fantasy element on some castration‑kink servers.

Why it matters

I really enjoyed these films. It’s so rare to see this topic brought into a public space. They’re not high‑budget – horror rarely is – but they’re important. They bring castration, and the stigma around it, into the cultural conversation.

Curious about availability, I reached out with a link to Slice on Amazon Prime and asked whether it was on DVD or other streaming services.

To my surprise, the director himself replied. No to DVD, yes to other platforms (which I’ve listed at the end of this post).

A conversation with the director

We talked about the film. I’d already introduced myself as a eunuch, hence my interest. He’s a sensitive chap and checked whether anything had offended me. It hadn’t. The films weren’t any different from what you’d find in the old Eunuch Archive’s fiction section.

He told me he’d tried to get another castration‑themed film made but struggled to find actors willing to take part in something so controversial.

There really is a lot of stigma around castration.

I hope he gets to make it.

If you’d like to watch Slice, you can find it here: Slice (2025) – Relay.

I genuinely hope Chet Turner gets to make his next film. It’s difficult, and there are real risks in creating work this controversial, but visibility matters – even (perhaps especially) in a horror film.