Y.M.G.

A friendly, non-threatening yuppie breaks the fourth wall to introduce his girlfriend’s lovable qualities in a suspicious montage that gradually reveals his murderous intentions.

Alexandra Warrick Writer & Director
Joe Gallagher The Boyfriend
Meg Spectre The Girlfriend
Aaron Dalla Villa Executive Producer

The “Madonna/Whore” archetypes and attendant complex are ones that horror storytelling has heavily relied on since the start. So many classic tales of terror hinge on the fallen woman punished by a titillatingly sick fate, the pure Final Girl escaping the clutches of the monster, et cetera. With our portrait of Y.M.G.’s “marketable”, oh-so-Millennial “Boyfriend” character, we seek to lampoon the myopia and precariousness of these ingrained pedestals. Here, horror tropes themselves skewer themselves, using this nagging factor that’s been far too long baked into the genre’s own D.N.A. to address a feminist issue directly without any signposting or explicitly stated agenda. Through touches of tongue-in-cheek humor giving familiar comedy beats an undercurrent of dread – paired with an uncannily “commercial” style relying on anodyne, glossy aesthetics – we intend for Y.M.G. to be a genre-scrambling soup of audience misdirection that will unsettle audiences in an unexpected, challenging and ultimately constructive new way.