Plastic Attack
2019 · 29m
Directed by Enzo Monzón
Genres: horror, LGBTQ+, sci-fi
Tones: dark, mythic, provocative
In 2050, a new world order exiles the LGBTQ community to hostile, contaminated land outside the cities, where a new threat from the ruling system gathers an ancient family.
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Monzón takes the usual dystopian resistance narrative and flips it by centering queer exile as cosmic horror—not metaphorical, but *mythic*—where the real threat emerges from the contaminated margins themselves. It's the kind of genre mashup that shouldn't work but does, because it actually has something to say instead of just inverting tropes for shock value.
The film situates itself within a lineage of political science fiction and folk horror, but struggles to fully reconcile its mythic register with the specificity of its LGBTQ+ premise—the ambition is evident in the tonal control, though the execution occasionally tilts toward provocation over formal coherence.
What elevates this past its high-concept premise is Monzón's decision to treat the 'ancient family' emergence as intimate and embodied rather than spectacular—there's a restraint in how the supernatural threat is revealed that makes the 29 minutes feel earned, not padded.