A twist on the horror genre, La Grande Bouffe makes the simple act of eating gross and stressful by the end, as the men continually shovel food into themselves while entertaining various visitors, including a group of students and several prostitutes. Fear the frogs! La Grande Bouffe (1973)Īlternately titled Blow-Out in the U.S., this Italian cult film skewers the excesses of the wealthy by telling the story of four rich men who come together at a lavish villa with the expressed purpose of eating themselves to death. With no regard for the flora and fauna around them, local wildlife starts rising up to protect their land. The wealthy Crockett family, presided over by a cantankerous chemical baron, is polluting the island where they live on a sprawling estate. In this eco-horror movie, it’s nature that’s giving the rich their just desserts. Nicolas Roeg served as cinematographer for Mask, so you’ve got some titans of cinema bringing you this grandiose fall from grace. But no man is above death, which Prospero will learn when a red masked presence crashes his grand ball. In this Roger Corman adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name, Vincent Price plays the heinous Prince Prospero, who we see partying in his castle and terrorizing the poor townspeople. As the days mount up, the party guests start to lose hope, turn on one another, or go mad as conditions break down and they waste away in their palace of excess. Likewise, no one from the outside is able to enter and help them. Nothing is physically stopping them from exiting, but they are still unable to cross the threshold. A ritzy society couple invites a group of friends over for an elaborate meal, and after retiring to the music room for drinks they are unable to leave again. Luis Buñuel’s extremely simple tale of a dinner party gone wrong is surprisingly grotesque. You might say, “But American Psycho?” To which you’ll be told, “But in the end, Patrick Bateman gets to keep on keeping on.” Yes that movie makes the upper crust look like a bunch of assholes, but this list is about movies in which the elite actually pay the price for their indulgences. A note about what’s included below: We wanted to stick with movies in which the rich or the ruling class got absolutely annihilated, shamed, bankrupted, or had their lives utterly ruined. So in honor of rage, Vulture has assembled a list of 30 essential eat-the-rich horror movies for your economic 99 percent enjoyment. It alternately entertains and devastates, like a candy bar with a razor blade tucked inside.” “The way Parasite’s story unfolds from there is like a magic trick. Alex Jung, as “a black comedy about class differences well suited to our season of scams” before slowly contorting itself into a surreal kind of horror story laced with manipulation, murder, and peaches. The popular art of 2019 is responding, too, with privilege-skewering movies like Ready or Not, Us, and this weekend’s critically festooned Parasite parading through our multiplexes.Ĭentered on a poor family whose members lie their way into the home of a very wealthy one, the latest film from South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho begins, in the words of Vulture’s E. You’ve got people throwing the money, and you’ve got people doing the dance.” The proletariat is fed up, and even the youth of TikTok are crying outrage at the billionaire class. As Jennifer Lopez told us in Hustlers, “This whole country is a strip club. Photo: Vulture, Walt Disney Studios, RADiUS-TWC, Universal Pictures and Netflix
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