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Yummy

Name: Yummy
Director: Lars Damoiseaux
Released: 2019
Duration: 90 min

Representation Score

4.7/10

Fair

2019

Not Rated

Director

Lars Damoiseaux

Runtime

90 minutes

Average Rating

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New Showbiz Analysis

Yummy operates within the standard boundaries of the horror-comedy genre, prioritizing visceral clichés over social critique. While it explores themes of bodily autonomy and medical institutions, it does not intentionally disrupt social hierarchies. The narrative relies on traditional character archetypes. The focus on Westerners traveling to Eastern Europe and the use of physical impairment as a source of tension suggests a conventional approach to storytelling. Ultimately, the film lacks the complexity needed to provide nuanced representation, remaining centered on established genre frameworks.

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Category Breakdown

Does Yummy have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film does not include explicit LGBTQ+ characters or non-cisgender identities. The main relationship follows a traditional framework focused on straight relationships.

How does Yummy portray gender?

Fair

The story centers on female characters undergoing cosmetic surgeries such as breast reductions and face-lifts. However, these women often become subjects of the plot's chaos rather than drivers of systemic change.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Yummy?

Limited

Set in an Eastern European hospital, the film features a non-Anglo-Saxon setting. However, it focuses on Western travelers, which risks reinforcing standard travel clichés.

How does Yummy represent religion and culture?

Fair

The story critiques the medical-industrial complex and the commodification of the body. It lacks a clear prioritization of secularism or the deconstruction of traditional family units.

Does Yummy include disability representation?

Limited

Physical vulnerability and loss of bodily autonomy serve as horror plot devices. These depictions lack the nuance or real representation of disabilities or neurodivergence.

Present on Screen

Explores themes of bodily autonomy through the lens of cosmetic surgery.
Offers a critique of the medical-industrial complex and aesthetic commodification.

Limited or Absent

Lacks intentionality in disrupting traditional social hierarchies or providing nuanced representation.
Uses physical vulnerability and impairment primarily as horror-driven plot devices.
Risks reinforcing travel clichés by focusing on Western demographics in foreign locales.

Official Synopsis

A young couple travels to a shabby Eastern European hospital for plastic surgery. The young woman wants a breast reduction. Her mother comes along for yet another face-lift. Wandering through an abandoned ward the boyfriend stumbles upon a young woman, gagged and strapped to an operating table; she is the result of an experimental rejuvenation treatment. He frees her, but does not realize he just caused the outbreak of a virus that will change doctors, patients and his mother-in-law into bloodthirsty zombies.

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