VR Food
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Malcolm Mills
Genres: comedy, horror, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Two inventors building virtual food start hallucinating its side effects, then discover another short film called VR Food exists and go hunt the rival filmmaker. Body horror as Silicon Valley pitch deck.
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The scouts
A movie about VR food that contains a rival movie about VR food, with John Early stuck inside the loop. The grossest possible startup parody and I refuse to look away.
Malcolm Mills self-cannibalizes — a film about VR food whose inventors discover a rival film about VR food and go hunting — Cronenberg as Silicon Valley pitch deck, with John Early. The conceit is the entertainment.
Self-cannibalizing premise where a film about VR food contains a hunt for a rival film about VR food, with John Early — Malcom Mills's layered dream-state body horror has the right kind of conceptual recursion.
Reviews
[The film] revels in the bizarre and grotesque in its depiction of a squalid attempt to upend the natural world.