Goose Egg
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Madeline Leshner, Zach Stone
Genres: dark comedy, horror, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A mother in the grip of a brutal migraine eats a hard-boiled egg and starts hallucinating; meanwhile her son tries to fetch her pills in a town gone weird with poisoned geese and an unhinged mayor.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Poisoned geese, an overzealous mayor, a migraine hallucination — this is exactly the kind of cheerfully unhinged civic-horror premise that makes me forgive a lot. B-movie energy without the apology.
Leshner and Stone filter a local-government conspiracy through a migraine fever dream and a hard-boiled egg — Quentin Dupieux meets early Sam Raimi meets John Wilson. The B-movie-horror lo-fi commitment lands.
Local-government conspiracy filtered through a migraine fever dream and a hard-boiled egg — that's the right kind of B-movie/lo-fi-horror cross-wiring. Matt Barats as the son sent to fetch pills past poisoned geese and a pickup-truck couple is exactly the casting for this register.
Reviews
The film works because it moves quickly, delivers stylized visuals, and doesn't take itself too seriously.