FLAPJAX

Arrow Bentley is the most enthusiastic restaurant manager you have ever seen. He spends the night in a spare room off the kitchen, he works more shifts than he needs to, and he talks to the cartoon pig mascot who plasters every inch of the kitschy dining room. Does he work at the freshest, coolest fast food joint in New York? Nope! He works at Hamudders, a pork-based eatery with the nutritional value of a landfill and a taste that would have killed the SUPERSIZE ME guy in three days.

Arrow’s enthusiasm and can-do attitude have finally been noticed, and the big guys over at Hamudders HQ have trusted Arrow to relaunch a long out-of-circulation product pulled for unknown reasons: Flapjax. He’s got a short time to plan the world premiere with his one-hit-wonder mom, his best employee trying to quit, and his growing suspicion that the Flapjax itself is hiding something sinister.

Take a bit of LOONEY TUNES, a dash of Troma, add a hint of Brian Yuzna, and you have the recipe for Rocko Zevenbergen‘s FLAPJAX. This fast food horror-comedy delivers on all the fronts you’d want from such a concoction: movement amplified by silly noises, a musical number, and some gonzo practical effects. Each bit of Zevenbergen’s film is filled with sight gags, handmade production design, and satire.

If you think an overzealous middle manager and his corporate bosses with nefarious interests have nothing to say about the modern American experience, then you haven’t been paying attention. Advertisements plaster over almost every inch of available space, and at all times one must consume, consume, consume… So consume this feast you must! FLAPJAX is sure to go into the darkest corners of your stomach and sure to be a blast with a Fantastic Fest audience. (AUSTIN KING)

Paired with the short UDDERS! dir. Michael Spencer

This deliriously disorientating body horror (with an ecological message) keeps within the sacred Fantastic Fest tradition of having at least one udder-focused short per year.