Coreys
2024 · 12m · USA
Directed by Dan Streit
Genres: comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A bored family man named Corey starts having visions of his doppelganger — a loud, vagrant version of himself living it up in Las Vegas and taunting him through a YouTube channel. He tracks him down, and the two fuse into one super-Corey.
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A man fuses with his own obnoxious YouTube-famous doppelganger — I respect any film that treats identity crisis as a literal biological event.
Conner O'Malley as both family-man Corey and Vegas-vagrant Corey-doppelganger, fused into super-Corey — Dan Streit's identity-merger comedy is the rare doppelganger film that takes the body-horror endpoint literally. Genuinely funny and weird.
Conner O'Malley plus the fused-doppelganger premise is exactly the kind of thing where the protagonist literally merges with his chaotic alternate self — that's a clean comic-horror move. O'Malley's track record earns a lot of trust.
Reviews
This gets extra insane right at the 6 minute mark. It's super creative & fun – a great example of what clever YouTube-generation filmmaking looks like.