Violente décline
2026 · 2m
Directed by Prunelle Mikanga
Genres: fantasy, horror, thriller
A young woman encounters the 'mangeurs', strange creatures that feed on women's beauty in order to stay alive.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute fever dream where beauty is literally consumed by abstract hunger—it's exactly the kind of premise that makes genre feel diseased and necessary. Mikanga doesn't explain the mangeurs, doesn't sentimentalize the victim, just lets the violation sit there unspeaking, which is why it works.
Structurally sound but operating in familiar surrealist-horror territory; the film is competent in its visual grammar and editing rhythm, though it doesn't quite locate a formal argument that separates it from its lineage of body-horror and creature work.
The real pickup here is the sound design—those feeding moments exist almost entirely in the audio space, which forces the image to become secondary, and that inversion of where horror lives is what makes two minutes feel genuinely unsettling on a zero budget.