Fun Parody of Gravity Trailer Is Set in That Other Huge, Terrifying Void: an Ikea Store

No one can hear you shop

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Few things are more perilous and panic-inducing than getting separated from your companions in an Ikea—an experience that some young filmmakers have now captured in a perfect parody of the trailer for Gravity.

"If I don't make it … promise you'll keep shopping," pleads the Sandra Bullock stand-in, wandering the desolate consumer wasteland and cowering in the throes of Ikeaphobia. "Promise you'll find everything else on the list."

With her cellphone battery almost drained, will she make it? Will they be reunited? Will the self-serve area even have half the stuff they just spent nine hours picking out? My blood pressure rises just imagining such a nightmare.

Via Reddit.

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