Echoing the Canadian comedy classic SCTV, crosscutting between original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County.
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- RGmidas6d agoBuffet Infinity: Cosmic Capitalist Horror, and the Endless Commercial Break ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Buffet Infinity asks an important philosophical question: What if capitalism was an eldritch abomination, local television advertising was its language, and humanity was simply another item on the all-you-can-eat menu? Brutally brilliant. THE CONCEPT IS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS Director Simon Glassman has cooked up something genuinely original. The entire story unfolds through a seemingly endless collection of cheap local television commercials, public service announcements, infomercials, and bizarre advertisements. Two restaurants are competing for customers in Westridge County. One is a beloved local establishment owned by a Nickelodeon Minion in human form. The other is Buffet Infinity, an increasingly ominous business whose appetite appears to extend well beyond the food industry. Meanwhile, commercials for insurance companies, pawn shops, local lawyers, and assorted community businesses gradually become pieces of a much larger, increasingly disturbing puzzle. It's essentially Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty meets Too Many Cooks, with H.P. Lovecraft operating the television station. 📺 CAPITALISM: NOW WITH UNLIMITED REFILLS Beneath the absurdity is a surprisingly sharp allegory. Buffet Infinity represents the insatiable appetite of corporate capitalism. It expands, consumes competitors, imitates their advertising, and gradually devours the community around it. Small businesses become disposable. Originality becomes something to appropriate. Competition becomes impossible when one entity can simply absorb everything. Sound familiar? It's basically Amazon, Google, and every streaming service simultaneously deciding that your neighborhood sandwich shop is now their intellectual property. The Lovecraftian element makes the metaphor particularly effective. The monster isn't simply evil. It's enormous, incomprehensible, and fundamentally indifferent to the people it consumes. Capitalism, apparently, has discovered the infinite buffet hack. THE COMMERCIALS ARE THE STORY I absolutely appreciated the storytelling mechanism. These seemingly disconnected advertisements gradually assemble into one coherent narrative. It's like watching a hundred tiny puzzle pieces while somebody keeps changing the channel. Unfortunately, this is also where my three-star reservation comes in. I loved the concept. I loved the humor. I loved discovering how the commercials connected. But as the mystery unraveled, the film occasionally developed Skinnamarink vibes. And that is never a good thing for my patience. There were moments when I appreciated the artistic ambition considerably more than I enjoyed the actual viewing experience. The mystery becomes increasingly strange, occasionally confusing, and sometimes feels like the filmmakers are daring the audience to Google what they just watched. FINAL VERDICT Buffet Infinity is wonderfully original, frequently hilarious, and conceptually fascinating. I admire the ambition enormously. I just didn't always enjoy the journey. Three stars for an extraordinary concept, some genuinely hilarious commercials, and a wonderfully weird Lovecraftian critique of consumer culture. The movie occasionally loses me in its own bottomless buffet of weirdness, but I'd rather watch filmmakers attempt something this bizarre than another sequel nobody requested. TLDR 🍔 Capitalism is an eldritch horror. Apparently, we've been eating it. 📺 A brilliant story told entirely through fake local television commercials. 😂 Hilarious, absurd, and genuinely entertaining. 🐙 Lovecraftian cosmic horror meets corporate greed and consumerism. 🧩 An ingenious storytelling concept that gradually connects seemingly unrelated advertisements. 😵 The deeper mystery occasionally wanders into Skinnamarink territory. Patience becomes a limited resource. ⭐ 3/5. I admire the meal considerably more than I enjoyed every bite. The real horror isn't that Buffet Infinity has an infinite appetite. It's that we're all still watching the commercials while it eats us.
- SpanktacularMay 12, 2026Local58 meets Adult Swim commercials.
- Patrick WaiSeptember 13, 2026I have to give Simon Glassman credit for pulling off something this ambitious on a tiny budget. The recreations of cheesy ’80s local TV commercials are frighteningly accurate, some of it is genuinely funny, and the L. Ron Hubbard lampoon had me laughing. But Buffet Infinity is also too experimental, too slow, too long, and eventually too convoluted for its own good. I couldn’t even finish it the first time. After reading an explanation, I tried again and enjoyed it more, but by the ending I was confused all over again. And then there’s the one-eyed monster. I certainly wasn’t expecting THAT on local television. An impressive filmmaking experiment, but as a movie? The buffet has too many dishes and I still left hungry. 5/10
- jackmeatMay 22, 2026My quick rating - 6.3/10. I went into Buffet Infinity mostly because the trailer looked weird enough to grab my attention, and weird it most definitely is. This is one of those movies where, within the first few minutes, you’re either thinking, “Oh, this is going to be my kind of bizarre,” or already wondering if someone accidentally changed the channel to a forgotten Canadian cable station from 1993 at 2:17 a.m. Buffet Infinity takes place in a time warp inspired by ‘80s and ‘90s late-night TV. It starts with a barrage of logos before launching into those homemade commercials. It feels oddly authentic, like someone found a dusty VHS tape in the attic and decided to make a horror-comedy universe out of it. The Crossroads shopping complex acts as the center of the madness. Buffet Infinity itself sits among a collection of local businesses, and before long, it becomes very clear that weird things are happening around town. And evolving fast. Not “the vending machine ate my dollar” weird. More “something feels deeply wrong here, but I can’t stop watching” weird. It is evident that director Simon Glassman knows exactly what tone he wants to capture by copying the tone of SCTV through cutting various commercial clips, including bizarre commercials, weird local advertisements, and strange news broadcasts. Some of these commercials are actually very funny. Ahmed’s Pawnshop ads were easily among my favorites and felt like the kind of thing you’d half-laugh at while also wondering, “Wait… did this actually air somewhere?” There’s some genuinely funny stuff buried in the chaos. What impressed me most is that despite the endless stream of weird, low-budget commercials and outlandish skits, there’s an actual storyline happening underneath all the absurdity. The characters and businesses begin forming this sinister, interconnected small-town narrative, and it works surprisingly well for a while. The movie absolutely nails the nostalgic feeling of fake local TV programming, sparking memories of cheesy commercials, weird infomercials, and the kind of low-budget broadcasting you’d stumble across while aimlessly flipping channels before streaming existed and stole all our patience. That said, Buffet Infinity eventually runs into the same problem many experimental genre films face. It starts loving its gimmick just a little too much. The middle section feels stretched way beyond what the premise can comfortably support. At some point, I found myself thinking, “Okay, this needed someone in the editing room armed with scissors and zero emotional attachment.” A leaner cut would have done wonders here, or alternatively, expanding the actual story to match the runtime could have helped justify the wandering pace. The ending also didn’t land as hard as I hoped, even with the slight nod to one of my favorites, Bad Taste, buried in there. After all the interesting yet bizarre buildup, it left me wanting something stronger. It’s brilliantly crafted and undeniably creative, but once the novelty wears off, Buffet Infinity ends up drowning in its own brilliance. For fans of analog horror and deeply unconventional filmmaking, this might be right up your alley. For everyone else, your mileage may vary somewhere between “hidden gem” and “what in the VHS Massacre did I just watch?”
- SirMonkalotAugust 8, 2026I’m slowly becoming obsessed with these movies where the whole runtime is just a bunch of fake and ridiculous commercials/tv shows. There’s something nostalgic and super comforting about them. It feels like I’m being transported to simpler times where we had less control and had to just be subjected to whatever nonsense was playing on TV. I’m ready for the next one!
- Doc WormAugust 5, 2026A unique take on storytelling that is rare in the medium of long form film. It's easy to point at Buffent Infinity and say it would work better as skit. It wears its ARG and 'Too Many Cooks' inspirations on its sleeve. But instead, it just goes for it. That's impressive within its own right and honestly works. There's not much depth to it, and that definitely holds it back. But it seems like it's just trying to be a spooky silly good time, and it definitely accomplishes that. Oh yeah, she's got the sauce. 😎
- rperrottMay 16, 2026This movie starts out great. The first half is a fun roller coaster ride through all of the wacky ads and trying to piece together the clues contained within them to determine the storyline. Unfortunately, about halfway through it just falls off the rails and goes off in a completely different tangent. It breaks its own Internal logic and the story just becomes a mess with no real coherent through line.
- Grampa CaligulaJuly 16, 2026No words can describe it without spoiling it. It's definitely a movie for someone with an eclectic, macabre sense of humor!
- Paul WalshMay 24, 2026What an odd movie. It feels like watching TV at 3am while half asleep. Creepy parts are intertwined with funny quips and comedy to make a unique watching experience. The film is about ten to fifteen minutes too long but unlike anything out there.
- Robb PriceJune 30, 2026A silly little Canadian movie that goes off the rails. Not the craziest thing our neighbours in Alberta have done lately 😉.
- SlipthornJune 13, 2026anti capitalist analog horror. funny when its commercials but tha actual movie parts needed another go over. i wouldve went to buffet infinity, maybe thats amoral but people are broke rn n a 6.99 indian buffet is too good of a deal to pass up on.
- cultfilmlikerJune 13, 2026If you’ve ever watched an [adult swim] infomercial and wanted it to be longer but also more ADHD, have I got the film for you! lol “Hope you love Kraft Dinner!™️” WHERE IS SHELLY MISCAVIGE The evil is spreading… Conceptually bold as hell. Genuinely frightening and somehow also uproarious. Disturbingly applicable and relevant. Just the fact that it even works as a cohesive film is miraculous. Spectacular work everyone! Why did this remind me of Eddington so much??? The horror gave me Skinamarink / We’re All Going to the World’s Fair / I Saw the TV Glow vibes, but definitely something else entirely lol Also, obviously, V/H/S First jump scare was hilarious. Combining like four endings into one with some abstract ass left turns was ballsy af. Basically landed it! It’s awesome that not trusting memories is a common horror theme this year lol “Really tasty but not enough to base your whole personality on it. (That’d be pathetic and embarrassing!)” What a quirky little town! Added to The One True Religion Currently Ranked #26/95 in 2026 Ranked
- kordovMay 13, 2026Buffet Infinity? No way! More like WTF Infinity! This is a strange one, I liked it.
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Buffet Infinity was released on May 8, 2026.
Buffet Infinity was directed by Simon Glassman.
Buffet Infinity has a runtime of 1h 33m.
Buffet Infinity was produced by Michael Peterson, Allison Bench, Simon Glassman.
Echoing the Canadian comedy classic SCTV, crosscutting between original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County.
The key characters in Buffet Infinity are Mosley Rosin (Kevin Singh), Insurance Woman (Claire Theobald), Man in Commercial (Donovan Workun).
Buffet Infinity is rated Not Rated.
Buffet Infinity is a Comedy, Horror film.
Buffet Infinity has an audience rating of 6.3 out of 10.
Buffet Infinity had a budget of $775K.