Fever
2025 · 13m
Directed by Isabella Nemcik
Genres: dark comedy, drama, horror
Tones: absurdist, dark, surreal
Ziggy is kept as an effectively adult infant by parents wearing monstrous prosthetics who spoon-feed and control him — until his romantic interest rejects him and something finally breaks loose. An absurdist drama about domestic imprisonment that tips into body horror.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The parents have prosthetic monster faces and still act like they're just concerned parents. That commitment to the bit is genuinely unsettling.
Isabella Nemcik's domestic-imprisonment-with-doll-parents has Yorgos Lanthimos's family-as-prison vocabulary; skin-crawling breaking points are well-trod but the descriptor suggests real commitment.
Parents wearing literal monstrous prosthetics spoon-feeding their adult son at the breakfast table — toxic family rendered as physical grotesquerie with a long-distance admirer subplot is Lanthimos energy on the right scale.