Buddy
2026movie
A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.
A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.
Sundance Film Festival 2026: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews. If the name sounds familiar, Kelly went viral in 2014 with Too Many Cooks, a jaw-dropping 11-minute short that, similarly, featured the what-if — and WTF — scenario of TV sitcom characters becoming sentient and finding themselves at the mercy of a serial killer. Kelly plays with form in ways that some might find exasperating, but there is always a method to his madness and, like Too Many Cooks, Buddy goes out on a psychedelic high, like an extraordinary experiment in mind control.
Buddy (2026) has a golden concept for a horror film. When the characters in a children’s television show realize that the show’s mascot, the anthropomorphic fur-suited citrus-colored unicorn Buddy, is their captor who will respond with homicidal impulse if they disobey them, they plot their escape. Playing on an analog horror aesthetic based on the uncanny nature of TV for kids and written/directed by Adult Swim virtuoso Casper Kelly (the viral short film Too Many Cooks, Adult Swim Yule Log), the film is rife with potential to be a new cult classic.
