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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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