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DEMON SLAYER - Surviving a Narc Attack

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DEMON SLAYER: Surviving a Narcissist Attack

Trigger Warning / Content Notice

This short film contains themes of psychological abuse, trauma, and predatory behaviour. It includes implied nudity in an artistic, body-positive context. Viewer discretion is advised. This work is intended as a cultural, spiritual, and educational exploration of narcissistic abuse.

Demon Slayer is a 6-minute, 27-second experimental short film, written, performed, filmed, edited, and produced entirely by EXIT369. The filmmaker embodies both Volvenda and the predatory figure (“Master”), exploring the predator-prey dynamic from inside and out. Through dual performance, the film captures the intimate, disorienting, and invasive experience of narcissistic abuse.

The film begins with Volvenda minding her own business, encountering a figure who appears charming, attentive, and enticing. He offers a rose, a kiss, and a pair of horns — symbols of false vulnerability and subtle coercion. As the interaction escalates, Volvenda becomes increasingly disoriented, manipulated, and trapped.

Glitching visual effects, subtle timeline disruptions, and mask overlays reflect the chaotic and destabilizing experience of abuse. The haunting, slow, cinematic soundtrack — punctuated with ethereal female vocalizations — guides the emotional rhythm, allowing viewers to feel both tension and release, fear and awakening.

A towering, demonic red dragon emerges during the climax, representing the overwhelming rage and psychic projection of the abuser. Volvenda ultimately collapses into Prayer, signalling surrender to spiritual truth, rebirth, and the reclamation of power. Light pulses, nebula stars, and soft white beams symbolize restoration, sovereignty, and feminine resurrection.

This is not a revenge story. It is a liberation narrative, a ceremony, and a visual testimony to the invisible layers of abuse that survivors carry. It is intended as both art and a teaching tool, offering a rare visual vocabulary for experiences often left unspoken.

Credits:
Filmed, performed, edited, and produced by EXIT369. Both Volvenda and Master are portrayed by the filmmaker, reflecting the inner and outer realities of trauma and power dynamics.

Additional Work:
This film is part of the EXIT369 project, a multimedia exploration of survival, sovereignty, and creative reclamation. Discover additional information, PDFs, and resources at exit369.com

  • Victoria Lynn
    Director
    The NECRO PARLOUR
  • Victoria Lynn
    Producer
    The NECRO PARLOUR
  • Victoria Lynn
    Key Cast
    "Volvenda-Lynn & MASTER"
    The NECRO PARLOUR
  • Victoria Lynn
    Writer
    the Necro Parlour
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, psychological, art film, surreal, dark fantasy
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 25, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 CAD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    iPhone 14 pro
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is a Canadian Cree Métis multidisciplinary artist working across painting, experimental film, performance, photography, and symbolic installation. Based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, her practice explores trauma, embodiment, mythology, memory, and transformation through emotionally immersive visual language.

After formal studies at the Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy, Lynn developed an independent, process-driven practice spanning over three decades and more than 400 works. Her work often combines ritual performance, symbolic narrative, archetypal imagery, and experimental editing techniques to examine the relationship between shadow, identity, power, and reclamation.

Through her parallel multimedia project EXIT369, Lynn investigates themes of psychological survival, recovery, sovereignty, and the reconstruction of meaning following fragmentation and abuse. Her films function as experiential and emotional spaces rather than conventional narratives, using distortion, symbolism, movement, and atmosphere to evoke internal psychological states.

Working outside traditional institutional systems, Lynn’s practice remains entirely self-directed and interdisciplinary, bridging visual art, writing, performance, and moving image as interconnected forms of personal and collective inquiry.

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Director Statement

Demon Slayer was created during a period of profound psychological disorientation and personal upheaval following experiences of coercive control and narcissistic abuse. Rather than approaching these experiences through documentary realism or linear storytelling, I wanted to explore the destabilizing emotional and spiritual dimensions of abuse from the inside outward — the confusion, seduction, fragmentation, fear, dissociation, and eventual reclamation of self.

The film operates as a symbolic confrontation between vulnerability and predation, illusion and awakening. By embodying both Volvenda and the predatory figure known as “Master,” I sought to collapse the distance between victim and aggressor, external event and internalized psychological imprint. The dual performance became a way of examining how abuse infiltrates perception, identity, and embodiment.

Visually, the film uses glitches, distortions, layered effects, and abrupt transitions not simply as aesthetic devices, but as expressions of psychic fragmentation and destabilized reality. The interruptions, visual pulses, and fractured rhythm mirror the lived sensation of manipulation and emotional disorientation. Rather than presenting polished clarity, I wanted the work to retain the instability and immediacy of lived experience.

At the same time, Demon Slayer is not solely about trauma. It is ultimately a film about resistance, spiritual survival, and reclamation. Prayer, light, ritual gesture, and symbolic transformation emerge throughout the work as forces of restoration and sovereignty. The appearance of the red dragon reflects the overwhelming psychic force of rage, domination, and projection, while the final return to white light suggests purification, integration, and release.

Created independently while navigating ongoing survival circumstances, the film became both artistic process and psychological exorcism — an attempt to transform confusion, violation, and fear into symbolic form. Through EXIT369, I continue to explore how experimental moving image, performance, and archetypal storytelling can function as tools for witnessing, meaning-making, and personal transformation.

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