Aliens bring rapture devoid of annihilation with torture and submission as their goals. Emotion is harvested as a commodity and sold back to humans in self-sustaining transactions as the means of containment. No one will ascend. Blood is on the Dinner Menu dissects the entanglements of nationalism, religious fanaticism, and fear, and how they keep citizens in line. By design, streams of information are fed to the public in bite-sized snippets that keep the viewer in both a constant state of stress and a sense of gambling-induced euphoria. In turn, daily lives are shaped under the mercy of algorithmically contagious opinions. No A.I. was used in making this short film