Consuming Passions (1988)

Directed by

Giles Foster

Genre

independent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

At a chocolate factory, a mistake leads to a new candy that has human meat in it. When the candy sells well, the bosses decide to keep using dead bodies as an ingredient.

darkly comicsatiricalbizarrelightheartedirreverentcampyoffbeat

What happens

Consuming Passions is a 1988 black comedy film which stars Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, and Sammi Davis and was directed by Giles Foster. The film is based on Secrets by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, a BBC television play broadcast in 1973. In the film, a chocolate factory accidentally released a new luxury product which contained human flesh. When the product turns into a surprise sales hit, the factory's owners decide to market their products to cannibals and to keep acquiring human corpses as key ingredients. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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