¿Comes otros animales?
2021 · 5m · Reino Unido
Directed by Ed Wiles
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Two female aliens are about to show two cheerful Earth men unspeakable wonders when they discover something stomach-turning about their guests. The discovery derails the encounter.
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A five-minute sci-fi rom-com that pivots on dietary habits—the kind of joke so specifically weird that it could only work as a total rejection of what we expect from alien-encounter narratives. Wiles commits to the absurdity without winking, which is exactly how you make the stomach-turning actually land.
The film's formal restraint in its comedic reveal shows awareness of tonal control; it knows precisely when to withhold and when to expose, sitting somewhere between Ealing comedy and contemporary genre pastiche with genuine craft in the editing.
The performance choice here—those cheerful Earth men playing it completely straight while the narrative catastrophe unfolds around them—is what makes a premise that could be a throwaway joke into something genuinely unsettling and memorable.