THIS IS 25 ｜ Omeleto

Along with Carpenter, CORPORATE MONSTER has a look and feel that owes a debt to the great, gritty 80s urban sci-fi films, full of stories that saw urban settings teeming with danger and catastrophe. But with its paranoia that a small wealthy, powerful elite controls the world and corporate dominance has seeped into the most intimate, personal levels of human existence, its worldview is firmly of our times. Though the short is a superb piece of entertainment -- and begs for an expansion into a feature -- it gives voice and shape to the fractious, troubled undercurrents of today's social anxiety. Maybe there aren't literal monsters in today's world, the film seems to say -- but underneath the seamy underbelly of it all lies the same monstrous venality, greed and inhumanity.