Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Big City Pizza (2026)

The city is on edge. The Omniball Championship is happening, the streets are a pressure cooker of fanatical sports energy and Boney—who is literally a skeleton—has a stack of pizzas to deliver. That’s it. That’s the setup. But this isn’t your standard slasher or creature feature. This is a journey through the urban underbelly seen entirely from the eye sockets of a guy with no flesh left on his bones.

The entire film is shot in one continuous, unbroken take. You don’t get a break and neither does Boney. Every door he knocks on leads to a new level of surreal insanity, ranging from underground gambling dens run by mimes to a cult worshipping a sentient meat slicer who stab him, exception, you know, he’s a skeleton.

Since the film is a POV experience, the real stars are the various character actors Saunders peppered throughout the delivery stops. It’s a rotating cast of over-the-top tough guys, neon-drenched psychos and people who look like they haven’t seen the sun since ever.

Yet Boney isn’t CGI. Saunders used an old medical school prop skeleton that he reportedly found at a garage sale. Yet he’s been inserted into a combination old school Adult Swim by way of indie video game universe, working for a pizza shop owner who hates him and pining for that man’s daughter.

It moves quick, it’s totally for adults and it showed me something I’ve never seen before: a skeleton BJ. Well done!

You can watch this either in-person or virtually at the Chattanooga Film Festival. For more info, visit the official site.

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