Happy Meat

The scouts

A vegan meat startup's creation developing teeth and turning predatory is exactly the kind of premise that makes everyone else squirm while I'm grinning—it takes the earnest disruption narrative and inverts it so hard it becomes body horror, and the fact that it commits to the absurdity instead of winking at it is what saves it from being clever-clever nonsense.

Green situates this squarely in the lineage of body-horror comedies (Cronenberg by way of corporate satire) and the editing rhythm between the mundane startup scenes and the surreal eruptions shows real formal control—though the tonal balance between earnest sci-fi and slapstick occasionally wobbles.

The sound design choice of giving the meat an almost-human vocal quality—not quite a scream, not quite a cry—is what anchors the whole thing; without that single sonic decision, it's just a silly premise, but with it, there's something genuinely unsettling underneath the comedy.