BUFF 2026 Film Review - Buffet Infinity
Images courtesy of Brunswick Underground Film Festival.
What would you get if you mixed channel flipping between late 90s local television networks, the works of HP Lovecraft, and a research dose of LSD? First of all, why on God's green earth are you mixing those things, and second of all, the answer is Buffet Infinity, the feature length debut from Canadian filmmaker Simon Glassman. This experimental analogue horror comedy has it all: bountiful amounts of surrealist humour, low prices on car insurance, a sandwich shop of dubious Italian heritage, a missing chihuahua, and plenty of parking out the front. It's a real limitless smorgasbord, but just remember - don't ask.
Told through a series of intersecting commercials, a new and mysterious all-you-can-eat buffet opens next to local favourite Jenny's Sandwich Shop, just as a sinkhole opens in their shared parking lot. A chihuahua, and then multiple people go missing, as the realities of the various fictional companies begin to warp and bleed into one another. It all seems inextricably linked to Langdon P. Hershey, a local sci-fi & fantasy author, martial artist, solo musician, and licensed masseuse.
What follows is pure, unbridled insanity, channeling Adult Swim-style dry absurdism in a thoroughly entertaining, if uneven, nifty little analog horror package. The audience at Brunswick Underground Film Fest seemed to absolutely eat it up as bouts of laughter erupted throughout, not to mention the knowing giggles as the festival staff accidentally played Nagisa Ōshima’s 1976 erotic masterpiece In The Realm of the Senses, before quickly correcting it to the programming at hand. There was even some light boogieing to the beautifully corny 90s soundtrack in the row ahead, the kind of thing that only happens when an audience feels permitted to be as unhinged in their reactions as the film itself. Buffet Infinity is a truly incredible film that has no right to work as well as it does, and I can quickly see this becoming a cult classic among stoners and midnight madness crowds with a hunger for something truly out of this world.
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Buffet Infinity screened as part of the 2026 Brunswick Underground Film Festival. For more info, click here.