Una nueva carne
2017 · 13m · España
Directed by Ramón San Román
Genres: horror, satire, sci-fi
Tones: dark, provocative, surreal
A devastating epidemic has wiped out all the mammals on the planet, unleashed by human greed and chemicals used to widen cattle's stomachs; two hunter men arrive after a long journey at a remote place in search of meat.
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A post-apocalyptic cannibal fable where the joke IS the horror and the horror IS the joke—San Román takes the most predictable eco-collapse premise and yanks it sideways into grotesque satire that makes you complicit just for watching. Nobody else would've had the guts to make the punchline this ugly.
The film's debt to body-horror and New Spanish Cinema is evident, yet San Román resists easy categorization; the surreal tonal register and commitment to formal provocation situate it within a lineage of politically engaged speculative work that refuses sentiment.
The single choice that sings here is the decision to keep the actual discovery offscreen and let the aftermath—the hunters' wordless, dawning recognition—do all the work; it transforms what could be shock-value schlock into something genuinely unsettling through radical restraint.