Short Thriller DOG FOOD Will Make You Squirm

This short thriller has played at a slew of film festivals and won Best Horror Thriller at Comic-Con. It will gross you the hell out. Seriously, it is gross, although without being really graphic. It relies more on the power of suggestion to make you squirm. Called “Dog Food,” it was directed by Brian Crano, and stars Amanda Seyfried, who is maybe my favorite, and Cory Michael Smith, whom you may or may not recognize from Gotham (he plays Edward Nygma). David Craig (not Craig David) also stars.

"Dog Food" is about a hipster-ish ethical butcher in Brooklyn who receives threats from animal rights activists.* You’ll probably see things coming from a mile away, but the ending is a surprise. Like I said, it isn’t graphic, but there is a tiny bit of profanity that may make this NSFW without headphones.

*Parts of it reminded me a bit of an old This American Life episode, about animal rights activists who kidnapped a bunch of rabbits from a butcher, inadvertently leaving all the baby rabbits to starve to death.