Out of Date
2016 · 11m · Reino Unido
Directed by Borja Torres Sánchez
Genres: dark comedy, horror, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
Kevin cooks himself a burger late at night and, despite the meat looking off, decides to eat it, turning what should be a simple case of food poisoning into one of the most bewildering nights of his life.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A burger-induced descent into cosmic horror that treats food poisoning like a portal—this is the kind of premise that makes you laugh and squirm in the same breath, refusing to settle into any genre lane long enough for comfort.
Torres Sánchez works within the established lineage of body-horror surrealism, yet the film's restraint and formal control—the way it lets mundane domesticity corrode into nightmare—sits thoughtfully between Cronenberg's influence and a more austere European sensibility.
The decision to keep the camera mostly static and intimate, trapping us in Kevin's escalating dread through spatial repetition rather than cutting frenzy, transforms what could have been schlocky into something genuinely disorienting on a micro-budget.