{"id":583558,"date":"2026-08-05T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:16:08","slug":"cannibal-comedy-ali-bens-spicy-meats-signs-with-abnormal-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583558\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannibal Comedy ‘Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats’ Signs With Abnormal Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKuala Lumpur genre outfit Abnormal Studios<\/a> has taken on worldwide international sales for \u201cAli & Ben\u2019s Spicy Meats,\u201d a Malaysian cannibal black comedy-horror from sibling filmmakers Iskander and Feisal Azizuddin. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe company plans to launch the title at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan this October.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ninth independent feature from the pair \u2013 working under their Feisk Productions banner \u2013 centers on two down-on-their-luck friends who accidentally hit upon a winning spicy beef jerky recipe \u2013 one with a distinctly human ingredient \u2013 and find their fortunes, and their moral compasses, spinning wildly out of control as the business takes off.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmir Nafis, one of Malaysia\u2019s better-known screen actors, leads the cast alongside Syazani Zikry and Bella Imani. Original hand-drawn illustrations by Gladys Lee and Qistina Ishak feature throughout as visual storytelling elements.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-director Feisal Azizuddin said: \u201cI wanted to tell a story that explores how desperation warps ordinary people, and how ambition often wears a friendly face, and that we are another person\u2019s dish in this complex, twisted society we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film takes cannibalism \u2013 rarely broached in Malaysian popular cinema \u2013 as both literal premise and social metaphor, training its lens on characters pushed to extremes by poverty and ambition. Where mainstream local filmmaking tends toward restraint, this picture pursues the opposite: explicit violence, sexuality and dark humor treated as formal choices rather than shock tactics, marking out a more transgressive current within contemporary Malaysian independent film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Azizuddin Brothers have spent the better part of a decade making work that sidesteps genre convention and mainstream expectation. Earlier features include the multi-character drama \u201cAngkat,\u201d the psychological thriller \u201cTafakur,\u201d the period-inflected \u201cThis Land of Mine\u201d and the horror entry \u201cKabus.\u201d \u201cAngkat\u201d screened at the 2024 Blue Chair Film Festival in Luang Prabang, Laos, where it received its world premiere. More recently, Feisk Productions cleared its crowdfunding target for \u201cFalse Summits,\u201d a documentary about a Malaysian mountaineer who died attempting Gunung Tahan, the tallest summit on the Malay Peninsula.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbnormal Studios, a Westec Media Limited subsidiary, brings roughly 100 titles a year to market across Southeast Asia as well as Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Mongolia and Nepal. Among its recent commercial successes are \u201cHow to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies\u201d and \u201cTwilight of the Warriors: Walled In.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tACFM runs alongside the Busan International Film Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kuala Lumpur genre outfit Abnormal Studios has taken on worldwide international sales for \u201cAli & Ben\u2019s Spicy Meats,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[246343,246344,26552,24456,93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-583558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-abnormal-studios","tag-ali-bens-spicy-meats","tag-asian-contents-film-market","tag-busan-international-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}