World Cinema Showcase de Nueva Zelanda

Why should a family who feast together on human meat be any less dysfunctional than others? In a household of cannibals suddenly bereft of its principal hunter and gatherer, three teenagers face a grisly learning curve. Mother’s not making it any easier with her hysterical opposition to the unclean flesh of prostitutes. Cruising the discothèque is nerve-wracking enough for barely out-of-the-closet Alfredo without mother and siblings back home preparing to ritualistically consume the object of his desire…

Inspired, for sure, by the seam of social satire in the zombie world of George Romero, Jorge Michel Grau, the latest of the new generation of Mexican writer/directors, conjures a murky nightmare of domestic angst, hormonal confusion, societal decadence and dire necessity.

“Surely cinema’s first Mexican social-realist cannibal horror drama, it’s grimly funny and at times horribly effective stuff. Ickily excellent.” — Adam Smith, Empire