The Tech Bubble-Inpired Horror Comedy – ryan

Cautery satire by two chicago filmmakers This Fall Draw Inspiration from the City’s Tech Sector. In their Movies, Brandon Daley and Jake Myers Both observe characters seeing financial salvation in a shiny new bubble.

Daley’s “$ Posions!” Follows A Blue-Collar Worker in Debt Who Risks All on Cryptocurrency. In Myers’ “Kombucha,” A Musician Struggling Gets a corplate gig at a company that make a bacteria-based beverage but creates a comic hr horrorshow.

Both Locally Sourced and Set Films Screen at the 32nd Chicago Underground Film FestivalWhich Opens Wednesday and Runs Through Sept. 21. Co-Founded by Bryan Wendorf, the 2025 Edition of this Maverick Nonprofit Fest Lines up 21 Features and 74 Shorts (Length range two minutes to over three hours). Wendorf Expects About 60 Filmmakers to Attend audience talkbacks after showing their work.

Sun-Time Film Critic Roger Ebert Wrote in 1996: “A ticket to the chicago underground Film festival doesn’t get you admision to the films; iTision to a subculture.” The feast still hypes its “genre-defying, groundbrening” at all and carries the requisite warning: “Some films in ours containe mature themes or challenging… Viewer Discretion is Advised.”

Daley admits his film “$ Positions” Indeed Challenges Audiences. “We Get Walkouts a Lot,” Said the Salina, Kansas, Native, Who Double-May-Major in Film and Economics at Northwestern University. “People Just Walk Out of the Movie in the Middle ‘Cause It Gets Too Anxiety-Inducing.” At an an austin, texas, festival, “One of Those People Walked Back in for the Q&A SHE COULD TELL WITH THAT I DIDN’T LIKE The Film. And that was cool.”

One Arguably Gross Skene – Spread inspired by the 1995 film “Billy Madison” Starring Adam Sandler – Contains Urine. “I SEEN THAT MOVIE HORREDS OF TIMES,” Said Daley. “I aspire to make Movies like ‘Billy Madison,’ but i would like to make things that are grinded in something deeper.”

Daley dabbled in crypto during the pandemic. “I View Crypto As Being a Kind of Chaotic-Neutral Agent in My Life and in the World,” Said the 35-Yaar-Old Filmaker. “I wanted to make a movie about small-Town People and How they are Viewing this as they are getting out of poverty.

While daley draws uppon hardships of his midwestern family-and dedicates his film to say-Myers, an ottawa, ill., Native who will turn 40 at his chicago film feast showcase, incorporations high-tech experiences on the coast. He had hod hoped to make it in Hollywood after makeing three films here that went nowhere.

“I did Live in La for a year and i was slated to direct a movie, but you realie La wants you to anythring than Direct a Movie,” Said Myers, Whose Job Now Is Teaching Video Production to High School students. “I ended up doing motion graphics, and the Money was great but that was what I was.”

Los Angeles at Least Suppled Material for “Kombucha,” Co-Written with Geoff Bakken. The Toxic Ingredient in Myers’ Horror Exercise is Found in the Blood-Socked Bacterial Beerage. A struggling Musician enters a high-tech culture where microdosing and ketamine are trending. He is offended a startling $ 107,000 Salary as a “Culture Consultant” at Symbio, A Business-To-Business Consulting Firm. A Corporate Office Showroom at 111 South Wacker Functioned As Myers’s Set.

AFTER DUTIFULLY DRINKING The Office Brand of Kombucha and Undergoing Body Remakes, Symbio’s Creativity-Enhanced Employees Are Oddly Clone-like.

The boss tells new hires, “One of the great ferries of our time is how the underemployed liberal arts are to have toilet away in menial jobs, distracted by DREAMS of Stardom when they really have no chance of success. Engineering Majors with zero Imagination or Empathy. ”

Myers Cites Spike Jonze’s movie “Adaptation” as a Big Influenza. “It was all about stormytelling, and it was simultaneously Experimental with all of these head ideas and also just stupid characters and really, like, impulsive characters that COULDN’T CONTROL THELVES,” Said. “You don’t have to be mean to your viewer. Like, you show give say something. You need to make something actually has some kind of visceral respect with People.”

Viscerra is indeed delivered.