Welcome to our 2nd Annual Birthday Bash as Divination Hollow Reviews!

We’ll be celebrating all month long with a series of posts by our team and esteemed colleagues and this year’s theme is “Going to the Movies!” Join us as we share themed content with special “tickets” for each category inspired by cinema.

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“Flux Gourmet”

Now streaming on shudder.

I loved Strickland’s “In Fabric”, and although Flux Gourmet is just as atmospheric and beautiful to look at, it is decidedly not for me. Fans of Cronenberg with an iron clad stomach for body horror and gross out food moments will (pardon my pun) really eat this one up, though.

Much as this disturbed me to the point of not eating the rest of my lunch, I really admire and respect the creativity. The digs at performance art and competitor artist drama did make me chuckle. I appreciate the character portrayals of ridiculous egos and inflated personalities, and the pompous dinner table talk of pseudo intellectuals contradicting one another. I also love the angles attacking domesticity and aligning the concepts of feminism and sexual autonomy with that. However, it was overall just too much of a personal auditory and sensory nightmare for me to engage deeply with it! I’m sure it was also part of the point of it given the aforementioned themes, but it just was a line I could not cross easily.

I mean, I consider myself both a foodie and a connoisseur of cinema, but I’d much rather enjoy my pasta without the sticky, gloppy, and auditory experience of suggestive performance art involving culinary passions. I just want to watch pretty food and cooking and things, and I can’t with squelchy sounds and sexually objectifying ingredients. Oof, really I beg of thee, for love of God keep your wack sexual kinks and fetishes out of my food movies if you want me to engage with them, hahaha. I mean of course do not kink shame or begrudge anyone who get their jollies, but personally I can’t handle it! (Truth be told I am able to tolerate most gross things in movies, but today I learned my limit is not just eyeball injuries or touching but, apparently, also squelchy, sexy food themes.)

In any case, fans with an itch for a lewd and unhinged Cronenbergian food fest who possess a stronger stomach than I may have a fun time watching this cast get down and dirty in the weird world of culinary performance art. And if that’s your speed, then by all means — mangia, per favore! Divorerai quests festa cinematograficandi proporzioni sureeali!

Review by Ellen Avigliano
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