Wunmi Mosaku Joins Body Horror Short Mango as Executive Producer Ahead of Disney+ Launch

Wunmi Mosaku lends her voice and support to Joan Iyiola’s visceral body horror short Mango as it launches on Disney+.

Here at Horror Movies Uncut, we’re always paying close attention when body horror intersects with lived experience—and Joan Iyiola’s Mango is exactly the kind of project that sits at that crossroads.

Per Deadline, Wunmi Mosaku has joined Mango as an executive producer as the short film launches on Disney+ across Europe. The move adds further weight and visibility to a film that’s already been making serious noise on the festival circuit.

Written and directed by Joan Iyiola in her directorial debut, Mango is a live-action body horror short centered on Zadie, a successful London florist suffering from fibroids—benign tumors that grow within the uterus and are often minimized or dismissed by medical professionals. As doctors repeatedly tell her variations of “it’s very common” and “you’ll be fine,” Zadie’s body begins to betray her, with the growths taking on an increasingly invasive and terrifying presence.

This is body horror rooted in reality—less about spectacle, more about violation, neglect, and loss of agency. The kind of horror that lingers because it’s already happening to millions of women worldwide.

Zadie is played by Olivia Nakintu, with Danny Sapani appearing as her father and Paul Chahidi portraying a medical professional. The film previously premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival earlier this year, where it quickly stood out for its unflinching perspective and emotional weight.

Mosaku, currently longlisted for a BAFTA Film Award for her work in Sinners, spoke powerfully about why Mango mattered to her. She described the film as “visceral and urgently needed,” praising Iyiola for transforming a long-dismissed women’s health issue into something poetic, painful, and deeply human. Her involvement feels less like a credit grab and more like advocacy through genre.

Iyiola herself is no stranger to turning personal experience into potent storytelling. A previous winner of the HBO Short Film Award for Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine, she recently shared her own journey with fibroids in Vogue, joining public voices like Lupita Nyong’o and Venus Williams in calling attention to a condition that’s routinely under-discussed and under-treated.

Produced by Apatan Productions—co-founded by Iyiola—with Salaud Morisset, Mango also lists executive producers Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Thomas Hawkins, Elisabeth Hopper, Joe Bell, and Dr. Christine Ekechi alongside Mosaku.

For HMU audiences, Mango represents the kind of horror we’re increasingly drawn to—work that weaponizes the genre to expose systemic blind spots, especially around women’s bodies, pain, and autonomy. It’s not just horror for horror’s sake. It’s horror with teeth, purpose, and consequence.

Now streaming on Disney+ in Europe, Mango is one to watch—and one that proves body horror is still evolving in bold, necessary directions.