Matar a Búrguez
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Pablo Escobedo Romero
Genres: experimental, horror, satire
Tones: dark, provocative, surreal
Somewhere in the Sierra de Guadarrama, an experimental culinary creation questions the purpose of its existence, in a gore-gastronomic tale about carnal desire, the food industry, and humanity's irrepressible predatory vocation.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute gore-gastronomy fever dream that treats the food industry's existential horror with the deadpan surrealism it deserves—the kind of premise that makes you lean forward because you genuinely don't know what you're watching, and that's exactly the point.
Escobedo Romero positions himself within a lineage of Spanish provocateurs and body-horror formalists, though the satirical bite occasionally overwhelms the compositional discipline that would elevate this from shock to sustained critique.
The decision to play the horror completely straight—no winking, no relief—while the premise spirals into absurdity is what sells it; that tonal commitment on a minimal budget creates a tension most shorts twice its length can't achieve.