Happy Hunting
2020 · 8m
Directed by Jordan McAfee-Hahn
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: dark, darkly comic, provocative
A fame-obsessed streamer live-broadcasts himself hunting infected colonists on another planet to break a rival's kill record.
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A streamer hunting infected colonists for clout is the kind of premise that makes you laugh and cringe simultaneously—it's satire that actually *understands* the subject instead of just pointing at it, and McAfee-Hahn commits to the bit hard enough that it stops being obvious.
The film sits uncomfortably between broad comedy and sci-fi body horror, which is precisely where its formal ambitions falter; the tonal whiplash feels less intentional than uncertain about whether it wants to be social critique or genre exercise.
The decision to shoot the infected colonists with real practical grotesqueness while keeping the streamer's POV clean and framerate-perfect creates this brutal visual contrast that does all the satirical heavy lifting without a single expository line.