F*ck Elves

Eight Asian-American stand-up comedians touch down in Iceland for the final stop of their European tour. With a day to kill, they rent a mini-bus and take a self-guided elf tour through the remote highlands. When they hit and kill something in thick fog — something that isn't human — the trip spirals from bad day to waking nightmare. The hidden folk want payment, and the exchange rate is blood for blood.

One by one, Iceland picks them off in ways as darkly absurd as they are brutal — frozen solid, swallowed by the earth, struck down mid-punchline. The survivors race to escape, but the landscape keeps shifting beneath them, and the hidden folk operate on one rule. By the time they learn what it is, it's already too late.

F*ck Elves is exactly the kind of project Secret Monster exists to make — a genuine horror-comedy where both halves are fully committed and feed each other. The comedy comes from real stand-up voices. The horror comes from Icelandic folklore which will be novel to most territories. And the title on a poster is a marketing engine that starts working before anyone knows what the movie is.

Asian-American stories are a proven commercial force — Beef, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and K-Pop Demon Hunters didn't just perform, they became cultural events. But none of them are live-action horror-comedies built around an ensemble cast — and F*ck Elves is built to claim that space, riding the cultural wave while its genre sets it apart and slices through the noise.