Director: Óscar Rojo
Writer: Óscar Rojo
Stars: Ángel Acero, Fernando Albizu, Carina Björne
Run Time: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes (Spanish, subtitled)
Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2PTTxr7
Synopsis
A dying woman tells her son, Dimas, to run to town and get her help. But she’s dead before he even gets up off the floor. He says he’s starving. Some time later, a man shows up with food for them, and he finds that Dimas has eaten half of the dead mother. The man buries the woman’s remains.
Credits roll.
Years later, Dimas is a grown man who has organized a big dinner party. He goes back into the kitchen and talks to the chef, who is a brutal man carving up human meat.
The editor for a food magazine hires Marcos, a food critic, to check out a special kind of restaurant, one that makes special dishes. She gets him an invitation to one of these secret parties.
We see the chef smack a girl over the head with a meat tenderizer and then throw her in the back of his van.
Marcos arrives at the party, and there’s some normal-sounding dinner conversation. After dinner, he has sex with one of the other guests, and tells her his review of the dinner. She offers to take him to more of these clandestine dinners.
We also see Dimas and the angry chef capturing and tormenting another prisoner, apparently fattening him up for a future meal…
Soon after, Marcus’s friend Carla says she knows of a clandestine restaurant that serves human flesh, and Marcos is definitely interested. Once he arrives, it’s explained “that no one leaves without trying the meat…”
Commentary
This is really well shot, and every scene is colorful and interesting. The food discussions alone were actually interesting, and I think the dinner scenes were some of the more interesting ones in the film.
I like that Marcos isn’t even undercover; he tells everyone exactly who he is, but the cannibals invite him in anyway. I hadn’t expected what finally happened at the end, but in retrospect, it all worked out really well.
If you’re looking for a really well-done cannibal film with a touch of class, this is a really tasty film.