What kind of a name is Corndog?
Main Cast: Jeff Webb, Mel Heflin
Director: Blaize Tudor
Wait, wait, wait, here me out!
I was looking at the cast of AMITYVILLE IN SPACE to see what else they had done and I noticed Tim Hatch was also in something called AMITYVILLE CORNDOG. Well, I work in a hot dog factory and part of my job is packaging corndogs, so, what, I’m gonna NOT watch this? I saw it was a 2026 short, but it wasn’t streaming anywhere, so I looked it up on YouTube and was lucky enough to find it. It’s 12 minutes and change and worth about two of them.
Written and directed by Blaize Tudor—who also stars—AMITYVILLE CORNDOG is about five friends who rent the Amityville house for the weekend and, bored, decide to get a Ouija board. They ask if there are any spirits and the board responds YES. Are you cute, one of the girls asks. NO, the board responds. “What’s your name?” she asks, and the board spells out CORNDOG. At that, the fridge opens on its own, the girl freaks out, and everyone else decides they’re done playing.
One of the guys, however, decides he could use a snack, so he goes to the open fridge, finds nothing, and closes the door. When he does, there’s a mysterious man standing behind it. He says nothing, but opens a box he’s holding and inside the guy finds a corndog. He puts it in his mouth and the corndog immediately kills him. Not sure how, let’s just assume it grows to incredibly lengths and chokes him because that’s about as much explanation as we’re going to get in these 12 minutes and change. Same for when it kills the flirty girl (as she is credited) when she mistakes the corndog for her toothbrush, same for the sleepy girl when the guy wakes her up and shoves it in her mouth. There is one character it doesn’t choke, however. Danny, the character played by the writer/director. He’s credited as “the constipated guy” and, when he rushes to the toilet, he finds the opposite of relief; something was lying in wait inside the bowl and he “can’t get it out!” I’m guessing it was the corndog.
AMITYVILLE CORNDOG is exactly what it sounds like, a bad joke. I don’t believe there’s any frame of this thing that’s supposed to be taken seriously, and I appreciate the joke. It is terrible from start to finish. The dialogue is blah, the acting is … well, the director got what he paid for, and I can’t imagine he paid the actors much at all. Tudor is having a blast here, just throwing stuff at the screen and seeing what happens. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself because if I try to convince myself he meant this as a serious work of art, I would lose what little faith I had in humanity already.
I strongly recommend AMITYVILLE CORNDOG. You can watch this thing right here, and then sit back and reevaluate all the bad things in your life and you’ll see they’re really not so bad after all because at least you didn’t star in AMITYVILLE CORNDOG.
C. Dennis Moore is the author of over 60 published short stories and novellas in the speculative fiction genre. Most recent appearances are in the Dark Highlands 2, What Fears Become, Dead Bait 3 and Dark Highways anthologies. His novels are Revelations, and the Angel Hill stories, The Man in the Window, The Third Floor, and The Flip.
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