What if your side hustle turned you into a weapon of mass destruction?
In a too-near future, Muna is an optimistic but broke young woman who signs up for a paid clinical trial, only to be injected with a mysterious slime that unleashes destructive powers she can’t control. On the run, she kidnaps Glenn, the lab worker who injected her, and the two set out on a perilous odyssey through a crumbling dystopian world in search of refuge and a cure. But as the clock runs out, is Muna transforming into humanity’s worst nightmare or its last, unlikely savior?
Direction
Braxton's debut fuses 16-bit nostalgia with Cronenbergian transformation
Visual Effects
The slime physics look wrong in exactly the right ways
Score
Kid Cudi likely composing his own character's existential dread
Director
Jeron Braxton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Willow Smith and Kid Cudi's casting continues the trend of musicians pioneering animated sci-fi, following Janelle Monáe in Dirty Computer and Childish Gambino's Guava Island.
The 'broke protagonist volunteers for dangerous medical trial' plot directly mirrors real-world Phase I clinical trial exploitation of economically vulnerable populations, particularly in urban centers.
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