Gluttony
2023 · 17m · South Korea
Directed by Chae Yeo-jun
Genres: dark comedy, horror
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
Mukbang livestreamer Yura, embarrassed after a botched challenge against rival streamer Nyom Nyom, agrees to a rematch — a competitive eating face-off whose grotesque escalation lays bare the body horror beneath the hunger-for-fame economy.
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The scouts
Finally, someone weaponizes mukbang—the most insufferable corner of the internet—and turns it into genuine body horror instead of just moral hand-wringing; Chae Yeo-jun gets that the format itself is the monster, and the escalation doesn't wink at the audience once.
The film situates itself shrewdly in the lineage of performance-based horror and economic critique, though the tonal balance between dark comedy and grotesquerie occasionally risks undercutting its own formal rigor.
The decision to let the livestream camera frame remain static and complicit—never cutting away, never offering mercy or distance—is what transforms a conceptually clever premise into something genuinely unsettling and earned.
Reviews
Like YouTube mukbangs on steroids, with a dark twist — the ending was deliciously creepy.
More weird than anything but still comes off enjoyable enough.
Festivals
- Florence Korea Film Fest 2024