Between new horror releases The Menu and Bones and All and it being Thanksgiving week, it feels safe to assume that food is on everyone’s mind right about now. So this week’s streaming picks belong to food-based horror movies, naturally. These grotesque movies are heavily themed around eating, though not in a way that’ll whet your appetite.
Here’s where you can stream these Thanksgiving-appropriate horrors this week.
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Blood Diner – The Roku Channel
Before becoming a standalone film, Blood Diner was initially intended to act as a sequel to Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Feast. That change resulted in a zany ’80s horror-comedy that remakes the splatter classic; the premise is essentially the same at its core. Directed by Jackie Kong, Blood Diner follows two brothers tasked by their dead serial killer uncle to continue his attempts to resurrect the goddess Sheetar. They do this by using their diner to host ritualistic feasts and lure women from which they harvest body parts. A pair of detectives struggle to keep up with the carnage. The original played it straight, while Kong dials up the ’80s excess for maximum gonzo laughs.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover – BritBox
This gruesome tale of revenge bides its time by establishing a twisted love triangle. After acquiring an upscale restaurant, crass mob boss Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) dines every night, repulsing his wife Georgina (Helen Mirren). She soon begins a secret affair with another restaurant patron, and when Spica discovers the affair, he plots gruesome revenge. The provocative tale of greed and vengeance is lavish in production and style. It also ruffled the MPAA’s feathers, earning the film an NC-17 rating for its liberal use of nudity and grisly violence.
Dumplings – Tubi
Beware of any food item promising to restore youth, especially if it’s not typically associated with health. Former actress Mrs. Li discovers her husband is having an affair with a much younger woman and seeks aid from Aunt Mei, a woman known for her rejuvenating dumplings. Of course, Mei’s dumplings give wonderous results thanks to a gruesome secret ingredient. It’s the feature-length adaptation from Fruit Chan’s Three Extremes anthology segment, which means a double helping of icky miracle food preparation with variations.
The Platform – Netflix
This Netflix original centers around a strange, vertical prison facility with one cell per floor and two inmates per cell. Every day, food is lowered through the levels via a platform, with the inmates only allowed to eat whatever is left on the platform for a fixed period. Every month, the inmates are randomly reassigned to a new floor. Those at the top level feast in luxury while those many floors down starve or worse. There’s no subtlety to this film’s overt metaphor, but that doesn’t make it any less effective. Things get brutal and repulsive.
The Stuff – AMC+, Pluto TV, Shudder, Tubi
Are you eating it, or is it eating you? The eponymous Stuff is a marshmallow/yogurt-like substance that bubbles up from the soil and gets marketed as a no-calorie treat. It’s the latest craze. The only problem is that The Stuff happens to be a parasite that turns its consumer into zombie-like creatures. Though the commentary and consumerism of junk food are thinly veiled, it’s endearingly goofy and funny. Leave it to director Larry Cohen and lead Michael Moriarty to bring the quirkiness in this horror movie that may make you question your Thanksgiving dessert.
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