BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

SnoopyStyle It's the lurid deprived world of Hollywood. Paul Bland (Paul Bartel) is a liquor store clerk in a bad neighborhood but he has gourmet tastes. His wife Mary (Mary Woronov) is a nurse. Their rent is getting raised and they are low on cash. They hate their swinging noisy neighbors. When one of them tries to rape Mary, Paul kills him with a frying pan and steals his money. After another kill, they decide to advertise to lure more swingers. Thief Raoul Mendoza (Robert Beltran) breaks in and discovers a dead body. He proposes to join the Blands with them keeping the money and him keeping the bodies.It's weird and ridiculous deadpan humor. It's also fun. Bartel and Woronov are a great couple. It has a few big laughs but it is generally a lot of sly silly comedic takes. It is definitely unique.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Paul and Mary Bland are a prudish couple living in Hollywood in the 1980's. They are surrounded by sexual perverts and swingers, and dream of moving to a quiet town in the Eastern United States where they can open a nice diner. Unfortunately they are near-broke. They're really likable people but are taken advantage of by everyone in town. Mary is a nurse who has patients following her like wolves, and a bank teller tries to rape her. Paul is ridiculed for being honest to his customers at the liquor store, and when he tries to sell some of his beloved wine collection to get money for the diner, it is stolen from him.One day the couple accidentally murders a swinger who broke into their apartment, and they take his money and toss the body in the trash compactor. They soon plan to put a fake sex ad in one of the pervy town magazines to lure new victims in and steal their money, and get advice from Doris, a nice and friendly housewife who spends her nights as 'Doris the Dominatrix' to make money to raise her baby. They also hire a Hispanic locksmith named Raoul. That night they kill a fat rich man with a Nazi fetish, and Raoul (not a locksmith but a burglar), breaks in and comes across the body, as well as the apartment, which is decorated with swastikas brought over by the Nazi fetishist. The Blands catch Raoul and are about to kill him, but he makes a sleazy deal with them that bring Paul and Mary into a world they'd never before stepped foot in, while also getting the cash for their diner down-payment.Eating Raoul is hilarious! The acting is great, the soundtrack is funny and suits the movie really well and the plot is really original. This black comedy has been one of my favorite movies since I was thirteen, it has some strong language but for the subject matter it deals with, that's understandable, it isn't enough to wreck the movie. Some of the swingers that the couple encounters are very funny; there's a hippie, a Nazi, a midget cowboy with a large pet dog, and many more weirdos. In the end, Paul and Mary get their diner.It's a great movie, it's impossible not to enjoy watching it!

LeonLouisRicci Outrageous black comedy for those with an appetite for the unusual and the deranged cinema of the bizarre. It has the right tone of nonviolent violence and unsexy sex that produces a world of the completely corrupted, crazy atmosphere of satirical simplicity.Nothing is presented as anything but just the way it never could be. A made up fantasy film that is unique and refreshing in its audaciousness. Deadpan acting helps and you have to listen closely for some of the best lines. A number of punches come from under the breath and ride quick transitions. This is the hallmark of very talented work from a very good ensemble of players and movie makers.More fun and frolics than most of the major budgeted comedic SNL alumni ventures that have been churned out in the last thirty years. Because talent will out where pretenders and posers play.

billcr12 Here is a retro comedy from 1982 written and directed by Paul Bartel. Bartel and his wife, played by Mary Waronov are a sexless couple looking to raise $20,000 to open a gourmet restaurant. They kill a guy with a frying pan and take his money.They then hatch a plan to lure swingers to their apartment with a sex ad and proceed to make money with this scheme. The problem is that this grows tired with the repetition of the same frying pan scene over and over.The style is grade b porn with a few laughs now and then. The lead actor and actress are likable enough to give this a 5/10.