UltraMegaSlasher
2017 · 6m · España
Directed by Iván Mulero
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Two horror filmmakers are determined to shoot the greatest horror film of all time and agree on every decision — well, almost every one.
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A horror film about making horror films that actually *gets* the absurdity—two filmmakers in lockstep agreement until they aren't, which is the whole joke everyone else would've played straight. Mulero's weaponizing consensus itself as the punchline is the kind of subversive move that makes you wish more shorts had this much contempt for the obvious.
The film's debt to meta-comedy traditions and screwball pacing is competent, though it risks collapsing under the weight of its own conceit rather than deepening it; the real question is whether the formal choices earn the premise or merely service it.
The entire thing hinges on Mulero's decision to keep the two leads in almost mechanical agreement until one small moment cracks it open—that tonal pivot, sustained on what feels like a single glance or line reading, is what transforms a sketch into something genuinely felt.