Buffet Infinity hits Shudder August 21 with bizarre restaurant rivalries, fake commercials, cult horror and an increasingly surreal nightmare.
There are plenty of ways to make a horror movie about food, but Buffet Infinity has apparently decided that a normal narrative is far too boring, because this surreal Canadian horror-comedy tells its story almost entirely through a barrage of deliberately cheap-looking television commercials, and is heading to Shudder this Friday, August 21, 2026.
And if the premise sounds completely bonkers, that’s because it is – directed and written by Simon Glassman, Buffet Infinity is set in the fictional Westridge County, where two restaurants become locked in a bizarre battle for supremacy.
The increasingly strange advertisements reveal an expanding sinkhole, a mysterious cult and a restaurant that appears to be becoming disturbingly sentient, where ads for everything from insurance and used cars to a local religious scholar and recording artist gradually connect into something much darker.
In other words, it’s basically What if your local TV commercial break slowly turned into an existential horror movie?
A Horror Movie Made Out of Fake Commercials
The strangest thing about Buffet Infinity is also its biggest selling point, because rather than shooting a conventional feature and occasionally dropping in advertisements, Glassman built the movie around hundreds of hours of original, deliberately low-budget TV-ad material.
The result is a film that feels like you’ve stumbled onto some bizarre local television station broadcasting from a universe where something has gone very badly wrong, where the concept apparently goes back much further than the finished feature.
Glassman originally developed Buffet Infinity from a 30-second YouTube sketch, eventually expanding the idea into his feature-film debut, and the filmmaker, who is also a comedian and cartoonist from Edmonton, shot and reshot hundreds of scenes while developing the movie.
The film’s deliberately scrappy aesthetic also connects it to the Canadian comedy classic SCTV,but underneath all the fake advertising and absurd comedy is a much more traditional horror idea – something is spreading through Westridge County, and the increasingly ridiculous commercials gradually reveal the scale of the nightmare.
Kevin Singh Leads the Cast
The cast includes Kevin Singh, Claire Theobald and Donovan Workun, alongside Allison Bench, Ahmed Ahmed, Brandon Vanderwall, while Glassman also serves as producer and editor, with Michael Peterson producing through Peterson Polaris.
The movie runs for roughly 100 minutes and comes from Canadian production company Peterson Polaris, with Yellow Veil Pictures handling distribution.
Buffet Infinity had its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2025, where Glassman received a Special Mention from the Best Canadian Director jury, and it later picked up Best Editing and Best Sound Design at the Brooklyn Horror Festival, according to HARD Film Festival’s film notes.
The Movie Has Already Had a Release
Buffet Infinity isn’t technically making its first appearance on streaming this week though,because Yellow Veil Pictures released the movie in select cinemas on April 24, 2026, followed by a VOD release on May 8.
The Shudder arrival therefore gives the film a much bigger potential audience, particularly for horror fans who might have missed its theatrical and digital run.
And judging by the response so far, the film has found plenty of people willing to embrace its very strange approach – Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the movie with a 100% Tomatometer score from 16 reviews, although the sample remains relatively small.
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