In school, Patricia (Dina Babajic) has always been the fat girl. Now
she has lost half a ton in weight and has become an attractive young woman
- but the scars that the bullying from years ago has left on the inside
still hurt. So one day, Patricia decides to strike back ... Patricia
kidnaps Babsi (Roswitha Kockro), ties her up, tortures her a bit, but as
the coup de grace, she forces Babsi, who has kept her good figure by a
vegetarian lifestyle, to eat meat. Next up on Patricia's list is Vicky
(Kim Kahnert), the ringleader of Patricia's bullies judging from her
behaviour, and she forces her to eat meat too - only this time she goes a
bit further and claims the ground meat she was eating was actually Babsi's
leg - after a recipe from King Munsa cookbook, basically a collection of
cannibalistic recipes that helped Patricia to slim down. While Patricia
is busy dragging her third victim, Cora, into her hideout, and confessing
to her that Vicky did not actually eat Babsi's leg, it was all fake, in
the process, Vicky manages to escape - but will remain traumatized
forever. 2 weeks later, Vancouver: Cora, who has still not gotten over
the experience coupled with a fear that Patricia might strike again, finds
shelter with a friend - but then Patricia breaks into the place, ties Cora
up, kills her friend, rips out her heart and tries to force Cora to eat it
- again according to King Munsa's cookbook. Cora though manages to free herself and overcome Patricia ... Canadian
police later apprehends Patricia and she is extradited to Germany, but
finds enough legal loopholes to postpone her trial by some 50 years. She
later moves to the USA and becomes a chief advocate for a cannibalistic
lifestyle ... Though King Munsa's Cookery Book has all
the ingredients of a shocker of the survival horror variety, it's
actually more of a very black comedy. Sure, the basic plot is more than a
bit disturbing, and even though the camera avoids to show the more graphic
details of the plot, the narration as such leaves little doubt about what
is actually happening - but the whole thing is played out just over the
top enough to come off as a dark satire as well. And that Dina Babajic as
the main psycho of the piece gives a memorable performance of course
doesn't hurt one bit. Pretty good, actually. For more information about the movie,
please head over to http://www.gatorgroup.de.
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