Eating Raoul (1982)

Directed by

Paul Bartel

Genre

comedy horror

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 150 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A prim married couple in 1980s Los Angeles wants to open a restaurant but cannot afford it. They start luring wealthy swingers to their apartment, killing them, and stealing their money.

darkly comiccampywrysatiricalgrungydeadpanexploitativeoffbeat

What happens

Eating Raoul is a 1982 American black comedy film written, directed by and starring Paul Bartel with Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley Jr., Buck Henry and Susan Saiger. It is about prudish married couple Paul and Mary Bland (Bartel and Woronov) who resort to killing and robbing affluent swingers to earn money for their dream restaurant. The writers commissioned a single-issue comic book based on the film for promotion; it was created by underground comix creator Kim Deitch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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