[Fantasia Film Festival] Buffet Infinity: The Sinkhole Where Satire Meets 80s Style Cosmic Horror

Although it’s a wrap at Fantasia Film Festival, we still have a few more bits to offer. Here, chefs, or rather, filmmakers have to be a little twisted to make Buffet Infinity tasteful and deliciously bizarre—and I’m glad Simon Glassman was up to the task.

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Fantasia Film Festival presented Shrimp Fried Rice (see prior post for review) alongside this movie, which played on July 28, 2025.

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Buffet Infinity is a film that may feel overwhelming at first. That’s partly because it’s built almost entirely from the kind of late-night local commercials that once dominated community television. Watching it in a theatre replicates the hazy experience of channel surfing after midnight—when you can’t sleep and wind up watching whatever strange programming is still on. If I had to compare it to a favourite broadcast from the late 80s to 90s, it’s as zany and unpredictable as Friday Night Videos.

Where I live, that often meant endless ads from Gordie Dodd’s quirky furniture store or oddball operations out of Belleville, WA. Elsewhere, it might be family-owned diners, pawn shops, or obscure grocery stores. In Simon Glassman‘s surreal feature, even Babbacock Insurance gets screen time.

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Two Episodes In, Nyaight of the Living Cat is a Feline Parody Done Right!

The Nyaight of the Living Cat continues the hiliarity for those who love mashups, like Night of the Zoopocalypse. Fans will just need a creative team to IP the concept!

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Only cat lovers and zombie heads will find lots to love in the animated series, Nyaight of the Living Cat. The puns are everywhere! And new cat owners can learn a thing or two about why cats react the way they do to certain human behaviors. The creators tacked these bits onto the episode and post-credit sequence. It’s better than what Marvel Entertainment does, since what’s taught can be useful. 

As for why this work is a parody, that’s because the adaptation has no shame in subverting the tropes from classic horror and action films! When audiences are supposed to be frightened, we aww or laugh-out-loud instead! This series’ world becomes sillier by the minute and is not afraid to overstate a cliché–cats are cute! From the obvious nya (the onomatopoeia for meow) being used in everyday speech to trying to explain the behaviour of felines, I chuckled at nearly every turn.

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Thoughts on the Kung Fury 2 Leak And How to Save It

If you didn’t hear the news about the Kung Fury 2 leak, then I got a recap before the video got taken down and thoughts on who should help bring it to the masses.

Kung Fury 2 Temp PosterWild Eye Releasing should pick up the tab to deliver David Sandberg’s sequel to Kung Fury. This homage to various genres, ranging from 80s style tokusatsu to buddy cop to sci-fi is a godsend. Kung Fury 2 is a no hold barred bonkers as Last Action Hero! Thankfully, newcomers or those who haven’t heard of this cult film can find the original on YouTube (or scroll to the end of this article to see the short).

If you are a fan of Power Rangers or even TMNT, this indie movie is for you! It’s a wonderfully hilarious parody of 80s schlock cinema, and all those cheap budget exploitation films from the 70s even count too! Apparently, last Friday a sizzle reel of the sequel leaked online, and with no surprise, it’s no longer available. Other folks may have since reposted it, but there’s no word on when those will disappear too. Someone might attempt to put it online again on another, less vigilant service.

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All The Scary Details You May Want To Know About Vampire Zombies From Space with Michael Stasko

In part two, fans might want to be careful in what gets revealed concerning all those Easter eggs that can be found in Vampire Zombies From Space.

Mike Stasko - WRITER_DIRECTOR_PRODUCERWhen Mike Stasko makes up one third of the core team who helped fine tune what Vampire Zombies From Space is, I’m really hoping for more! His latest film is almost similar to Casey Walker’s A Little Bit Zombie, a movie made more than a decade ago. Both deal with how victims eventually become a member of the walking dead, and to find a cure is rarely explored. I will post an old interview I did with him and include updates regarding his next horror movie, which is currently in post-production. And please visit this link to read part one with writer Jakob Skrzypa.

While the circumstances are completely different between these two particular films, I’m a sucker for zombie comedies. It’s a subgenre that gets a movie made at least once every two years, but not a lot of them stand out because they lack originality. The last time I laughed out loud was with Anna and the Apocalypse! The fact that it’s also a musical says it all.

There are honestly not enough movies being made that marry random genres together. I have to say it was by sheer luck that this movie and Night of the Zoopocalypse released nearly back to back. The dose of nostalgia and euphoria I had was on cloud nine. Afterwards, I had to fall back to the animated medium to rewatch Monsters vs Aliens to round out what I feel are in my top five favourites of this subgenre. 

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The Zombie Wedding is Nothing to Moan Over When Crazy Feuding Familes Agree

The talents recruited to participate in The Zombie Wedding is nothing but spectacular. They come from all “walks” of the entertainment industry! And The Monkee magic certainly helps.

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Just how much of the undead virus exists in Zack (Donald Chang) depends on who you ask. I wouldn’t know he’s a zombie until it was stated, and when he wants to marry Ashley (Deepti Menon), nobody from their family is going to stop them from having The Zombie Wedding of the year! The media is even having a field day asking, how is it possible?

What I love about this comedy is that it really belongs in the same universe as A Little Bit Zombie. Although this work is over a decade old, I feel there are shared ideas. For this latest, director Micah Khan and writer Greg D’Alessandro crafted a fantastic satire on multiculturalism and how to get along.

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Gudetama An Eggcellent Adventure That’s Too Adorable For Words

Shunsuke Takeuchi voices most of the characters in Gudetama An Eggcellent Adventure, and to say the producers decided to put all their eggs in one basket by only having a single talent do the work is a huge gamble!

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Gudetama An Eggcellent Adventure is very edgy. Yes, I could’ve used a pun here, but to say it’s edgy is giving it too much credit. The idea of making a lazy yolk co-star in this new Sanrio series with Shakipiyo, a chick, is more than odd. Instead, what they learn together includes more than understanding their meager existance. The end goal is to reunite with their mom with this latest interpretation.

But fans have followed these two clucks for almost a decade! A lot has developed in their past adventures which also includes dealing with the meaning of life and kawaii culture. That is, an examination of what defines cute. These two characters are from the same chickadee breed, but when it comes to figuring out who their mother is, that’s going to be tough! Those who have followed the earlier exploits are at an advantage. For western audiences, not everyone will know of their their early quests. I’m excited to start looking at what has been made prior after watching this new series.

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