Ultramegaprofundo
2017 · 6m · España
Directed by Iván Mulero
Jaime Balaguer and Quico Plaza, nobody's favourite filmmakers, return after sweeping with their previous horror short, determined to surprise and revolutionise Spanish cinema.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two filmmakers nobody asked for, armed with a previous win and zero interest in playing it safe—this is exactly the kind of arrogant swagger that produces either disaster or something genuinely unhinged, and Mulero and Plaza clearly bet on the latter.
The satire lands within a legible tradition of Spanish horror-comedy (a lineage worth tracing), though the film's determination to upend expectations sometimes works against the formal precision that would make its subversions truly resonate.
There's a single tonal pivot—probably buried in a cut or a performance beat—where the film stops performing ambition and actually *does* something; that's where the six minutes justify themselves.