2014 · horror · comedy · sci-fi
Too Many Cooks
Directed by Casper Kelly11m2014
"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.
Our read: Too Many Cooks (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal horror · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, breathless, measured horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- funny
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