VIFF presents Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story

Trudy Vachon was a soft-spoken teen with an unusual dream: she wanted to carry on in the footsteps of her famous dad, Paul “Butcher” Vachon, and her uncle Mad Dog. Defying expectations for “lady wrestlers”, who were typically treated as bimbos at the time, she adopted a demonic snarl and the nickname Luna, and shaved half her head: a Heavy Metal fighter, and genuinely scary (even to friends and family). Kate Kroll’s touching documentary mixes admiration with sadness: Luna was bipolar, and the wrestling world she grew up in was riven with abuse. She achieved fame, even got her own action doll, but her life was full of pain and heartache.