ON AIR
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Brian Cifuentes
Genres: dark comedy, horror, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
During the recording of their popular film podcast, two ruthless critics enjoy tearing apart a director's latest film; their review goes viral, the director falls from grace, and they gain fame — but when their show begins, a series of strange events makes them suspect that karma has decided to settle accounts.
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A podcast-critic-revenge-horror mashup that gleefully eats itself — the premise is *designed* to make you uncomfortable about who deserves comeuppance, and it refuses the easy catharsis. This is the kind of genre-splicing that sounds gimmicky on paper and somehow lands as genuinely unsettling.
Cifuentes threads a careful needle between horror formalism and comedy timing, borrowing the escalating dread of *Karmic retribution* narratives while maintaining ironic distance through the podcast framing device — a formally disciplined approach to what could've been mere genre novelty.
The genius move is making the podcast itself the recurring visual anchor while everything fracttures around it; that decision to keep the frame and microphones steady while reality warps beside them does the heavy lifting that usually demands a bigger budget.