Films or series similar to The Menu (2022)
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I saw The Menu during its theatrical run, when it debuted on streaming, and just revisited it this weekend. Most of my professional life has been in bars and restaurants, running a wide variety of cuisine and concepts and price points. This movie, for me, is really something special.
I have a collection of cookbooks including White Heat by Marco Pierre White. Gordon Ramsey started out under him. There is an infamous clip of White saying he didn’t make Gordon cry during service; “he chose to cry.” Anyone deep into the culinary world knows Chef Slowik, played by Ralph Fiennes, is a direct call out to chefs René Redzepi of Noma and Grant Achatz of Alinea (and Ramsey of course).
I also enjoy watching cooking competitions hosted by Ramsey. Notably I’ve been on a binge of Next Level Chef, where chefs compete on literal different levels of kitchens with a moving platform of ingredients. I haven’t seen it, but I thought to myself, isn’t there literally a horror film kinda like this? Yes, dear reader, it’s called The Platform. Who’s seen it and is it worth checking out?
Aside from The Platform, what other horrors or psychological thrillers scratch that specific itch The Menu does? I’ve seen What You Wish For (2023) and of course my beloved series Hannibal.