HUEVONES

HUEVONES is a dark comedy short film rooted in a very specific kind of memory: when eggs were so cheap, kids used to throw them at people for fun. Set against a gritty, 90s inspired music video aesthetic, the film follows a group of teens cruising through the night, hanging out of car windows, egging strangers, and treating it all like a joke until they hit the wrong person and karma hits back instantly. What starts as reckless, stupid fun becomes a larger story about consequences, humiliation, and how quickly power can shift. The film plays with the double meaning behind eggs, both as a literal weapon of mischief and as a symbol tied to the phrase “egg on your face,” turning embarrassment, arrogance, and fallout into the emotional core of the story. Beyond the surface chaos, HUEVONES taps into a broader cultural reflection. Eggs become a symbol of time, value, and change, a once throwaway object that now represents inflation, scarcity, and the absurdity of growing up in a world where even the cheapest things no longer feel disposable. By contrasting the memory of 99 cent cartons from 25 years ago with today’s inflated cost, the film uses humor to frame a deeper commentary on how the world has changed. The overall art direction is a 90s dark comedy with music video energy. Raw, stylized, mischievous, and cinematic, the tone blends street level nostalgia, fast paced youthful chaos, and an exaggerated sense of danger to create a film that feels funny, reckless, and slightly unhinged while still carrying a sharp cultural point of view.