Electric Meat Trailer Unleashes a Blood-Soaked Psychosexual Noir Ahead of Tubi FrightFest Premiere
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‘Electric Meat’ Trailer Unleashes a Hypersexual, Blood-Soaked Noir Nightmare Ahead of Tubi FrightFest Premiere
One of the most visually arresting genre trailers to emerge this summer has arrived in the form of Electric Meat, the surreal psychosexual thriller from writer and director Dan Schaffer. Blending erotic obsession, body horror, neo-noir aesthetics, and graphic violence, the film is set to make its World Premiere at Tubi FrightFest on Aug. 28.
Known for his work as a comic book artist and writer on The Scribbler, Doghouse, and Peripheral, Schaffer brings a distinctly graphic novel sensibility to his latest feature. Every frame of Electric Meat feels meticulously composed, drenched in neon lighting, stark shadows, and provocative imagery that evokes the stylized worlds of Frank Miller, Nicolas Winding Refn, and European exploitation cinema while forging its own disturbing identity.
The newly released trailer wastes little time establishing its unsettling tone. Equal parts erotic fever dream and psychological descent, the footage delivers a barrage of blood-soaked visuals, surreal hallucinations, and increasingly fractured reality. The result is a hypnotic blend of noir thriller, psychological horror, and psychosexual nightmare that feels less interested in traditional scares than in creating an atmosphere of obsession and decay.
Electric Meat stars Caspian Faye (Cat Skin), Emily Booth (Doghouse, Evil Aliens), and Nina Courson.
The story follows a struggling photographer who spends his days working as a butcher. After discovering one of his models murdered in a back alley, he makes a horrifying decision. Comfortable handling dead flesh from his day job, he keeps her body as artistic inspiration in hopes of reviving his failing career.
Reality soon begins to fracture.
The photographer becomes convinced his muse exists in an impossible state, simultaneously alive and dead like Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment. No longer the passive subject he imagined, she transforms from a lifeless mannequin into a vengeful revenant that begins asserting her own terrifying will.
As his obsession spirals further into madness, he turns to his eccentric landlady, a former model carrying her own emotional scars and dangerous impulses. Together, their twisted relationship pushes his work, and his sanity, into increasingly violent and psychotic territory.
Visually, the trailer is impossible to ignore. Saturated reds, harsh blues, sculptural lighting, lingering close-ups, and graphic practical effects combine to create imagery that feels equally indebted to arthouse horror and grindhouse exploitation. The film embraces sexuality as aggressively as it embraces violence, creating an aesthetic that is provocative without appearing gratuitous. Every shot feels designed to unsettle as much as it seduces.
Schaffer said he was thrilled to premiere the film at one of horror’s premier festivals.
“It’s a thrill to have the world premiere of Electric Meat on our home turf in London at one of the world’s leading horror festivals,” Schaffer said. “FrightFest has long championed bold and innovative genre cinema, and we’re honoured to have Electric Meat become part of that tradition.”
While many festival horror films promise originality, Electric Meat appears genuinely committed to delivering something visually and psychologically distinctive. Its combination of eroticism, surrealism, artistic obsession, and visceral horror suggests audiences should expect a film that prioritizes mood, imagery, and psychological unease over conventional genre formulas.
Whether Electric Meat ultimately becomes one of FrightFest’s breakout discoveries remains to be seen, but its first trailer has already established it as one of the festival’s boldest and most uncompromising selections.
Electric Meat will make its World Premiere at Tubi FrightFest on Aug. 28.