Known for television epics such as Succession, Entourage and Shameless (USA), Mark Mylod serves food and thrills.
Ralph Fiennes - Julian Slowik
Anya Taylor-Joy - Margot
Nicholas Hoult - Tyler
Hong Chau - Elsa
Janet McTeer - Lillian
John Leguizamo - George
Summary
Margot and her companion Tyler travel by boat to Hawthorne, an exclusive restaurant owned by chef Julian Slowik.
Others attending dinner include a culinary critic and a washed up movie star.
It's quite normal at first, but as courses and host's monologues fall by the wayside, violence soon escalates.
Taste. Savour. Relish.
Social commentary isn't without issues, but flavoursome ingredients revel in sardonic humour.
Fiennes basks in the sinister limelight, with icy cool demeanour exuding impressive menace.
That isn't to say that Taylor-Joy and Hoult underwhelm.
Ignoring the similarity to Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness, tension dissipates in the second part and sacrificial climax by self-immolation is basically Midsommar.
However, does Slowick deserve an origins story?
"Yes Chef!"
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