Essence Atkins in XCU: Extreme Close Up (2001)

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Horror maven Sean S. Cunningham sets his sinister gaze upon reality television in XCU: Extreme Close Up (2001). Cannily casting veteran actors and grown-up child stars along the lines of C. Thomas Howell, Scrubs's Sarah Chalke, and Danica McKellar (the once and forever Winnie Cooper of The Wonder Years), XCU excoriates the narcissism of reality TV's producers, performers, and audiences with biting satire and terrifying jolts. It also aims to get more than just Nielsen ratings up with a topless turn from dusky eyeful Essence Atkins.