Breakfast
2024 · 6m · UK
Directed by Shaun Munro
Genres: dark comedy, horror
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
A man's ordinary morning routine spirals into chaos when an invisible malevolent entity terrorizes him as he tries to make his damn breakfast. Sound design and practical effects do the heavy lifting in this single-location, near-wordless siege.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Finally, someone figured out that the invisible monster premise doesn't need jump scares or exposition — just a guy and a kitchen that hates him, which is genuinely more unsettling than any rubber suit could be.
Munro channels the restraint of early Polanski without imitating him; the formal commitment to sound design as the primary storytelling apparatus positions this squarely in the lineage of visceral, object-focused horror craft.
The sound design is the film — every ceramic clink and electrical crackle is engineered to feel like a threat, and that singular decision to let audio carry the antagonist turns a micro-budget kitchen siege into something that lands like a punch.
Reviews
Some absolutely lovely close-up insert shots to convey the unnerving mystery of this telekinetic entity.
This film had no need to be shot so brilliantly, yet it does so anyway.
Festivals
- Pigeon Shrine FrightFest London 2024
- Popcorn Frights 2024
- Another Hole in the Head 2024
- Romford Horror Festival 2024
- Horror-on-Sea 2024