Kafka’s classic tale is artificially sweetened in this AI-rendered modern adaptation of The Metamorphosis. Presented through the eerie lens of machine-generated imagery, the film embraces the uncanny valley aesthetic of AI to mirror the unsettling, dreamlike tone of Kafka’s storytelling.

When the dutiful breadwinner Gregory mysteriously transforms into a gigantic insect, the focus shifts to the quiet horror faced by his family. As months pass and their financial stability crumbles, the Sampsons grapple with an impossible dilemma: what to do about Gregory. Their struggle exposes a darker truth beneath their polite, middle-class façade—where the strangest horrors wear the most ordinary faces.

Directed by Kyle McCabe (USA)