Crew
VW
Vanessa Wheeler
Producer
UM
Uli Meyer
Director
MI
Markus Ilschner
Director of Photography
UM
Uli Meyer
Writer
Cast
Margaret Clunie
TA
Tom Ashley
Boris Hiestand
Rob Rackstraw
Tricky
Tricky & The Cereal Killers
20253m
DramaAnimation
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.
