Meat Friend (2022) Poster

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10/10
Listen up children
BandSAboutMovies4 July 2022
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When Billie (Marnie McKendry) - sorry, I mean children - microwaves raw hamburger meat, it needs no old top hat to come to life. Instead, Meat Friend (Steve Johanson, who co-wrote this with director Izzy Lee) is alive and real and wants to teach her some valuable life lessons rooted in hatred and violence, no matter what her mother (Megan Duffy) does.

"More beef! Less cheese!" goes the refrain and the faithful demand the reanimation of the meat homunculus.

This was an absolute blast of strange and exactly what I needed during the fest, something that started odd and didn't let up.

Izzy Lee has also directed the Lovecraft film Innsmouth, the "For a Good Time, Call..." segment in Shevenge and several shorts like Consider the Titantic, Disco Graveyard and Memento Mori. You will be amazed how much you can truly learn from a pile of sentient 80% lean ground beef as it blows mad rails.
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9/10
Shake hands with beef.
DoorsofDylan12 January 2023
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After being creeped out by The Creeping (2022-also reviewed) I decided to view a short at the online part of the Soho Horror Film Festival. Taken by the unique looking poster on the site,I got ready to bite into some meat.

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Coming straight out of the microwave smiling, co-writer (with Steve Johanson, who voices the Meat Friend with a tasty line in passive-aggression) / director Izzy Lee & cinematographer Sophia Cacciola serve up an infectious Horror Comedy atmosphere, bursting with stylish over-saturated day-glo colours giving the Meat Friend a Children's TV puppet appearance, whose cheerful appearance Lee cuts through with wah-wah zoom-ins on Meat Friend revealing evil plans.

Serving up the ultimate dinner from Hell, the screenplay by Johanson and Lee merrily slides between gleefully daytime cooking and kids TV in the gloriously odd banter friendship between Billie and her friendly plate of meat, which decades, with Horror-Comedy dialogue, from the hellish plans being cooked up by Meat Friend.
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