Evil Dinner
2025 · 6m · España
Directed by Jose Murzia
On a Friday night, a young man immerses himself in his world of heavy metal and excesses, relaxing at home. Everything changes when a mysterious shipment arrives at his door in the form of an innocent pizza box; what begins as a quiet evening becomes a desperate struggle to survive.
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The scouts
A pizza box body horror premise that sounds ridiculous until it absolutely isn't—this is exactly the kind of high-concept genre perversion that makes people defensive at festivals, and Murzia leans into the absurdity hard enough that it works as genuine dread, not parody.
The tonal control here is admirable; Murzia resists the temptation to wink at the audience, treating a conceptually outlandish threat with the formal severity of slow-burn horror, which gives the piece more weight than its runtime suggests it has earned.
The decision to keep the entire runtime confined to one apartment and one man's visceral reaction—no cutaways, no explanations—is what makes this claustrophobic rather than silly; that restraint, and whatever Murzia chose to show versus hide, is what separates survival-box horror from a concept sketch.