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Kombucha (2025) poster

2025 · horror · comedy · music

Kombucha

Directed by Jake Myers1h 34m2025

Trapped in a fluorescent-lit cubicle farm, an aspiring musician thinks the free break room kombucha is a perk - until it begins to change him. What starts with suspicious smiles and team-building ends in a bile-drenched metamorphosis.

Our read: Kombucha (2025) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive horror · comedy · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.

  • brisk
  • intense
  • inventive
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Where the cast leads
DNA · twelve axes

How Kombucha feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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What watching it is actually like.

“You want body horror workplace satire where free kombucha turns employees monstrous.”

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 8attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorgore

Skip it tonight — You hate gross-out viscera or stories that will ruin kombucha forever.

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