Fantastic Fest 2023 was from September 21 to 28 and has so many movies that I can’t wait to see. You can learn more about this movie and when it is played here.

Maria (Estefanía de los Santos) and Jesús (David Pareja) have just had a baby. He’s tired of her being the only one to make decisions, so he buys a coffee table without asking her. It is the most horrible piece of furniture ever. He pays for it for the rest of the movie.

This is being sold as “an uncomfortable, politically incorrect film with extremely black humor and a brutal tragedy.” That’s truth in advertising.

Directed by Caye Casas, who wrote the script with Caye Casas, this isn’t for everyone. But if you’re ready, I’ll give you a spoiler.

I mean, it’s going to ruin this, because the surprise is what the movie is all about.

So…

The table is missing a screw and it’s not stable. While Jesús is playing with his newborn son, he drops him onto the table and it slices the baby’s head clean off. Now, he has to hide the corpse from his wife, his brother, his brother’s wife and everyone else that comes to see the child, whose head is somewhere under one of the chairs.

If that’s the kind of thing you find amusing, you’re going to love this, one of the tensest times you’ll spend watching a movie. Not for expectant fathers. Or mothers. Maybe not for anyone.