Peaches & Scream
2022 · 13m · Denmark
Directed by Adrian Kirk Ejsing
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
Thomas finds out why he hasn't been invited to his girlfriend's home until now and quickly wishes he could've stayed in ignorance.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A meet-the-parents nightmare that actually *becomes* a nightmare—absurdist body horror masquerading as domestic comedy, exactly the kind of premise that makes programmers nervous and Felix vindicated. Ejsing refuses the easy lane and punches straight into the surreal, which is why everyone else will sleep on it.
A formally controlled descent into nightmare logic, where tonal precision—the film's refusal to wink at its own grotesquerie—situates it squarely in the lineage of Nordic-inflected horror-comedy with real teeth. The editing's restraint is what sells the dread.
The crucial move here is committing fully to the girlfriend's perspective and keeping Thomas bewildered—that asymmetry of knowledge, sustained through performance and framing, transforms what could be a gimmick into genuine unease. A 13-minute film with nowhere to hide, and it doesn't.