“ Kombucha ,” the new horror-comedy film from director and co-writer Jake Myers, has been in the works for years, but the office culture satire is hitting even harder during the current economic climate.

“It really does feel like this hits at a cultural moment,” Myers says. “In a way that I think causes some people discomfort, but also they can laugh at it.”

Myers, who wrote the film with Geoff Bakken, has delivered a uniquely modern take on corporate grind that does not shy away from body horror. In the film, an anonymous yet recognizable tech company offers new employees lucrative starting wages, doing something , as well as a potent kombucha that ends up making them work to death.

After debuting at Dances with Films in June and playing at festivals like FrightFest and Grimmfest,

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