Buffet Infinity is the kind of movie that restores your faith in truly independent filmmaking. With so much derivative chaff bombarding us at cineplexes and on streaming services, seeing something THIS unique, fresh and experimental is an absolute delight. It’s weird, it’s funny and yes, it’s even legitimately creepy at times. I can’t help but feel like we’ll be looking back on this one as a decade-defining genre movie — even if it might take a good 20 or 30 years before everybody else figures it out.
There’s an obvious gimmick to the film. About 90 percent of Buffet Infinity is comprised of fake commercials — usually running about 30 seconds to two minutes — stitched together and overlapping in carefully selected segments. Yes, it might give you some WNUF Halloween Special vibes at first, but it doesn’t take long before Buffet Infinity becomes its own animal.
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My wife and I watched this last week. It very much felt like something that Meow Wolf would put on. The story sort of falls apart about three quarters of the way through though and it winds up going nowhere which was unfortunate.