honey I just killed a man
he WAS a man, now he's just a bag of garbage

A sexually repressed married couple trying to buy a restaurant devise a plan to murder swingers in order to get the money to do so in this bizzarre dark comedy. A satire on the American middle class's puritanical ideas of sex, as well as greedy consumerist and capitalist culture that allows people to justify any actions with a feeling of entitlement, on the swinging '70s and the residual garishness of the early '80s, and even the prudish backlash represented by the main characters. Just absolutely wildly entertaining.

pretty good movie.

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Frying Pan of Suburban Doom +2

Speed Factor: 5
Damage: 25-65 HP

Attributes:
+10 DMG to swingers
+5 DMG to child/nazi impersonators

Special Abilities:
35 % chance critical hit to black/latino men

Lots of um,,,, comedic rapes

There’s a lot of witty dialogue and committed performances from the three leads, but..... I find it next to impossible to enjoy a watch where there’s an excessive abundance of rape scenes that leaves the movie feeling like a real long rape joke. Blame it on me being a feminist with no sense of humor and a survivor of my own assaults but rape as a joke build up just doesn’t get me going! Who woulda thunk? Sorry for being a stick in the mud!! But also, I’m not sorry at all! :0)

“Keep cool, baby—I know what I’m doing... I’ve got ambition”

Definitely in the running for my favorite comedy? Haven’t watched this in YEARS and it’s even better than I remembered.

Delightfully sexy and silly, this film is a bizarre delight. God, such an antidote to the bad horror blues, and I wouldn't've watched it if it hadn't been misclassified as horror. It's dark comedy and possibly satirical (or maybe just absurd). It really nails how absurdity can make villain-protagonists palatable. Of course, there's a contrast between our Bland murderers and their comrade/enemy Raoul, but no one in this film is anything but a bad person in some way. Still, there is something endearing about how the Blands sleep with stuffed animals/wine bottles, in separate beds, and to be honest, something sexy about Mary in general.

Perfect Black Comedy

The filmic equivalent of a Robert Crumb comic, this is a live-action cartoon defined by it's straight-faced sense of irony and cynicism, and everyone can get a taste. I love it - it's sheer, knowing mean-spiritedness, in action. Everyone is a caricature here, as over the top a collection of intentionally low-rent stereotypes as you'd find in Fritz The Cat.

To be sure, visually Bartel isn't trying to do too much - everything is composed very haphazardly, belying the film's low budget. But, that's part of the film's indelible charm, of a piece with John Waters and other smirking purveyors of high-class trash, though Waters was much more in love with his misfits where Bartel is wary of everyone - this is very much a lesson on writing and directing (and producing) within your means. Practical lighting abounds.

Take note, however. It all works wonderfully.

I like the guy's wine body pillow.

75/100

Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov are very funny. This film had a fairly low budget, but it gives the movie alot of charm, everyone involved seems like they're having fun.

It's very mean-spirited, every character is a jerk, but that just makes it funnier when it cuts to a shot of their body barely fitting in the garbage bag on the Bland's kitchen floor.

fun and funny!

Eating Raoul is one of its kind: a farce semi-screwball comedy in a world that's basically one pervy Looney Tunes cartoon, a short run time that leaves barely enough time to catch your breath and comprehend what's happened. I was also surprised by how much I was fooled by the premise; my eyes saw "restaurant" and "killing swingers" and thought this was gonna be like some Motel Hell shit but nope!

So yeah if you're up for something oddball and memorable give this a watch...even if the title is a spoiler...well okay not really that but it comes into play for a clever little mind trick.

Also I notice newr the end our lead man makes a reference to stepping a on a snail on the steps...and I just watched Training Day where Scott Glenn told a story of an abused snail that ended up smushed on the porch outside...🤔

Paul Bartel looks and acts exactly like my old film lecturer (L. Napper). What’s scarier is the fact I can imagine him doing this to.

Like most older comedies, it’s funny but also terribly problematic. Enjoyable as long as you don’t pay attention to the sheer number of attempted rapes that occur

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- Hey, you taste it, you´re gonna buy it, alright?

super campy, endlessly entertaining and made some points on american consumerism and the sexual revolution whilst being utterly ridiculous and hyperbolic reminded me of a john waters film.

“why don’t you go to bed, honey. i’ll bag the nazi and straighten up around here.”

gotta be the most delightfully funny movie about murder, sex kinks, and cannibalism ever made. so many good bits so many jaw dropping moments, what a ride.

Le meilleur Raoul est un Raoul au four