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Mark (Nate Wise) is a socially awkward guy, which might have to do with his parents' untimely death in a car accident that also left him with a metal plate in his skull. Still, Mark does his best fit in and is in therapy with Dr. Klein (Kathryn Whisler) - even if his progress is rather on the stagnant side. And then he meets lovely Ash (April Consalo), or rather she runs him over in her car. Worried she might get into trouble for this, she doesn't call 911 but takes him home with her to nurse him back to health - and really, the next day it turns out his injuries are only minor, pretty much nothing an aspirin can't fix. Plus, she treats him, a bit of a foodie, to some delicous tacos. And before you know it, the two of them start dating, and Mark finds himself the happiest man alive - and then he witnesses her brutally killing a man. Sure, it was in self defense, but she used extremely violent means still. As he can't completely shake his feelings for her, his first actual girlfriend, he helps her stuff the body in the trunk of her car amd take it to her house - where he realizes she's processing the corpse to food, food like the delicious tacos he has had the other day. He makes a hasty escape, but back home he realizes he has grown addicted to human flesh and can't eat "normal" food anymore. So he returns to Ash and accompanies her to her nightly food hunts, with them preying exclusively on rapists, pedophiles and other predators. And in a way, these excursions bring them closer and closer together - while their nature at the same time puts a strain on their relationship ...

Cannibal Mukbang sure isn't your run-of-the-mill cannibal comedy - and that said, it's still gore and mutilation aplenty, its fair share of macabre situations, ultra-violence and gross-out humour. But at the same time this is also an underdog story that actually has lots of heart and shows its fair share of empathy for its outcast couple. So watching this is a touching experience, and not just on a visceral level, thanks to a clever script that actually finds relatability in its wild proceedings, a directorial effort that gives the actors and story its room to breathe, and of course a likeable lead couple. And the result is a pretty unique and very worthwhile experience, actually.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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