Milk
2022 · 10m · Canada
Directed by Santiago Menghini
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tender
A young teen goes into the kitchen late at night for a glass of milk and realizes things are not quite as they seem.
Picked by Zoe
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Menghini extracts maximum dread from a single kitchen at 2am — the domestic familiar made viscerally strange with almost no budget.
Late-night kitchen, sleepless mother, ten minutes of dread building from a glass of milk — two characters, one location, Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere. Disciplined horror.
Menghini compresses a domestic two-hander into a Babadook-adjacent dread study, where the milk glass becomes a Polanski-style object of estrangement. The interactive Vimeo gimmick is incidental — the formal achievement is making a kitchen this haunted.