Kuala Lumpur genre outfit Abnormal Studios has taken on worldwide international sales for “Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats,” a Malaysian cannibal black comedy-horror from sibling filmmakers Iskander and Feisal Azizuddin.
The company plans to launch the title at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan this October.
The ninth independent feature from the pair – working under their Feisk Productions banner – centers on two down-on-their-luck friends who accidentally hit upon a winning spicy beef jerky recipe – one with a distinctly human ingredient – and find their fortunes, and their moral compasses, spinning wildly out of control as the business takes off.
Amir Nafis, one of Malaysia’s better-known screen actors, leads the cast alongside Syazani Zikry and Bella Imani. Original hand-drawn illustrations by Gladys Lee and Qistina Ishak feature throughout as visual storytelling elements.
Co-director Feisal Azizuddin said: “I wanted to tell a story that explores how desperation warps ordinary people, and how ambition often wears a friendly face, and that we are another person’s dish in this complex, twisted society we live in.”
