Your childhood breakfast buddies want revenge.
Set in the 1990s, Tricky begins in a London animation studio run by a husband-and-wife team famous for creating beloved cereal mascots. Their world crumbles when new regulations ban sugary ads targeted at children, effectively cancelling their entire industry overnight. The husband flees to America, leaving behind his wife and their daughter, Maya. Decades later, Maya’s 12-year-old daughter, Charli, discovers a VHS tape of the old commercials. Hoping to connect with the grandfather she’s never met, she uploads digitized clips to TikTok using AI tools. But the experiment goes horribly wrong: her viral videos open a portal between worlds, unleashing the once-cute mascots, now twisted, AI-enhanced monstrosities, into the real world.
Practical Effects
Hand-crafted 90s animation meets grotesque AI corruption.
Direction
Uli Meyer packs feature-length dread into 180 seconds.
Sound
Jingles curdling into something hungry.
Director
Uli Meyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Uli Meyer animated on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam — this is his revenge on the characters he helped create.
The 1991 UK ban on children's cereal ads referenced in the film was real, destroying dozens of animation studios overnight.
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