Eating Raoul

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You'd think a black comedy about murder, tackiness, and sexual perversion would quickly become dated, but Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly fresh and delightful. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by one of the repulsive swingers from the neighboring apartment, her husband Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her with a swift blow from a frying pan--only to discover a substantial wad of cash in the swinger's wallet. A lure-and-kill scheme follows, which nicely fills their nest egg until a slippery thief named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, making his film debut) stumbles onto the truth and insists on getting a share. When Raoul starts demanding a share of Mary as well, Paul has to take drastic steps. The key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensational content, but the blithe, matter-of-fact attitude Bartel and Woronov take to it; their sly underplaying makes the movie sparkle with wicked wit. --Bret Fetzer

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The Blands are a couple living in swinging Los Angeles with their ultra-conservative ways. They find it hard to live life in the midst of all of the completely obnoxious swinging bachelors. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they devise a plan to off the swingers in their apartment building with the use of a frying pan to the head, dispose of the bodies and keep the wallets. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action. Huge cult favorite comes to DVD for the first time!

Customer Reviews:

My type of comedy.......2007-07-15

This is the best of Paul Bartel. I have worn out a VHS tape watching it.

Bad transfer - everyone's short & fat.......2007-02-02

Several others have mentioned this. It's true, and it is very noticeable and takes away from the pleasure of watching. The movie is weird, quirky fun, although not for all tastes to be sure. But the short, squat figures just don't look right. And you can't fix it at home. They'd have to re-release it, fat chance with the tiny audience for specialty films. Arrggh.

I kept it anyway, better than nothing. But the shortened, fattened appearance of the actors is a real pain.

Eating Raoul - a tasty movie.......2006-03-09

Eating Raoul is a good case for not judging a movie by the poster (or box). The stars of this movie include a very straight-laced married couple whose role seems to be making fun of religious conservatives. They play this role in a farcial manner. Equally treatment is given to "swingers" who marked the period in which this movie was made. The swingers are the offset and victims of the stars. The third star of this cult classic is the title character Raoul - their partner in crime. This is not a family movie. You would spend time explaining why the female lead is doing things like dressing as Minnie Mouse and is chased around the room. There is one scene containing nudity of the female lead but this is a sex farce. The whole movie centers around adult themes.

Weird Dark Comedy.......2006-01-28

Mary Waranov is excellent in this fairly strange period piece that has one of the more bizarre plots of any movie I can recall. A very straitlaced couple are confronted constantly with "swingers " who party in the building where they live and stumble on a twisted scam to attract and make money on other people's perversions. A very weird one of a kind film that is entertaining in a sick way. Should have become a cult classic but has become a bit obscure over the years. I remember seeing this in the theater but after checking out the DVD I had really forgotten just how weird this one is. By the way the DVD I got is a good transfer. Based on the complaints below, it must be a new edition.

Good...But Not As Good As I Hoped.......2006-01-28

I read so many reviews about this film,
calling it a "cult classic" and saying
it was hilarious- so I decided to
buy a copy.

Yes, I am a big fan of cult-cinema,
but this movie just doesn't live
up to its own hype.

If you want some low-budget movies you can laugh at-
try "The Last American Virgin" or "Manos"
those are what I consider brilliantly bad movies!

Eating Raoul has its moments- but I certainly
don't consider it a classic; call me picky
if you will.

It's just not as good as I thought it would be.

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Frankenfish
Bad Acting, Bad Plot, Digital Gore, and More - What's not to Like?
Surprisingly Good River-Monster Horror - Take A Chance On This One
3.5 stars for this surprise of a movie...
some unexpected scenes

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Starring: Tory Kittles , K.D. Aubert , China Chow , Matthew Rauch , and Donna Biscoe
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
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ASIN: B0002W4SBI
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Customer Reviews:

Frankenfish.......2007-08-20

This was a good movie, I liked it. my sister and boyfriend enjoyed it to.

Mona

Bad Acting, Bad Plot, Digital Gore, and More - What's not to Like? .......2007-08-13

Living in the middle of a marsh isn't exactly the most loving atmosphere and some terrible things happen. The movie itself shows us how this could happen by showing us how fishing is sometimes done; apparently you put your hand in the water and stick it into mudhole, looking around with your fingers until something - hopefully a catfish - thinks the hand is a nice snack. The fisherfolk then picks up his prey, puts it in the boat, and takes it to his rsidence - in this movie the houses were floating homes located "up the river." But when a body washes up with marks on it that look like they are made by something much larger than an alligator, two people are sent in to look into the problem.
And the thing they find - they aren't exactly what you would call "friendly."

To get this out of the way, this movie is really low budget and isn't for the majority of viewing audiences. It was actually aired on the Sci-Fi channel when I first saw it, and I thought the ideas that it had were funny and the gore that kept the dynamic kicking were well worth my time. So, when I found the movie for a VERY cheap price, I looked into it and I saw more of the gore I liked and more laughs to be had. Admitedly, the laughs were not on purpose and the movie wasn't trying to keep me entertained in the way it did. But the bd acting, the "Frankenfish," the discombobulated storyline that dealt with weird people and weird relationships; that was what I was looking for when I was looking for entertainment.
So, I really do understand why people dislike movies like this BUT I hope the same can be said for the other half.

If you find the Sci-Fi channel's movies of the week entertaining, then this would be something you might find interesting. It has all the staples that a Sci-Fi movie normally does, and the DVD has a little more of the gore that Sci-Fi isn't willing to show. I'm not going to go and recomend this movie to anyone, either, because this is one of those things that a person knows they either have the taste for or that they don't.
Myself - I laugh everytime I see this title but most people I know don't shae my disposition.

Surprisingly Good River-Monster Horror - Take A Chance On This One.......2007-03-31

No, despite the title, "Frankenfish" isn't a painful-to-watch monster spoof trying achingly hard to be both cool and funny but failing miserably at both. And despite what the title might also have you thinking, it's not a $10-budgeted filmed-in-the-basement-over-the-weekend student film. It's a surpsisingly well done, at times quite fierce, and thoroughly fun, blast of monster mayhem.

Set in the deep parts of the Florida everglades, the movie involves (as opposed to a re-animated fish swimming forth from a foreboding gothic castle) Chinese Snakeheads (real fish from China, piranha-like creatures who can live for a while on land and will even attack prey on land) who've been genetically engineered by a group of wealthy big-game hunters to grow to monsterous proportions, all the better for them to track down with their machine guns and grenade launchers during the pursuit of their 'sport'. A ship carrying the cargo gets caught in a massive storm and washed up the river into the Everglades where the beasties get free just in time for lunch. And, of course, the 'Frankenfish' have turned out even more lethal than their designers intended. This movie is far from a spoof but it is a little on the campy side, a little on the tongue-in-cheek side, and it's a reminder that, occasionally, a bit of the campy elements in a horror movie don't necessarily have to be a bad thing, as long as they don't go overboard.

The main protagonists in the film aren't the rich hunters. A Florida cop and an Everglades wildlife expert are dispatched into the rivers to do some investigation into the discovery of a washed-up and eaten-up corpse, and end up at a cluster of houseboats where people live year-round in the Everglades making a living off fishing in the rich swamps and streams. It's a likable cast that ends up as the fish's target for buffet of the day, and the bloody man vs. beast action sequences are better and more credible than you might think they'd be. The movie doesn't try to present its creatures as more dangerous than they could conceivably be (taking into account that a regular-sized chinese snakehead is a pretty intimidating little predator, let alone a six-foot one). Ergo, they're not presented as the harbingers of civilization's imminent collapse, but they are extremely dangerous to anyone on or remotely near to the waters they're in. It's like with "Jaws" - the shark wasn't taking down big ocean-liners but you sure didn't want to be out swimming or even on a small sailboat when he was nearby. The balance struck is right, the effects are solid and well-designed, and the whole movie surpasses what pretty well anyone likely thought it could be.

An allout winner and a must-see for fans of aquatic/swamp horror like "Piranha" and the "Anaconda" movies.

3.5 stars for this surprise of a movie..........2007-03-02

And i taught this movie would be boring,, cheap effects ...but i was
pleasantly surprise at how good the monster fishes looked and the way
they got and ate some of their victims... Ok, the acting was not top here,
but ive seen much worse lately.... I would say 85% of the movie is great, and the rest could have been better.....and wow...i love the ending...
For the creature movie crowd....this one must be seen.
Enjoy

some unexpected scenes.......2007-01-15

For a cheesey monster movie, it wasn't that bad, it had the 'anacondas' feel to it, but people were dropping like flies. also, it's rated R for "sexual content" it should say nudity, there are 2 farely long very innapropriate boob scenes. i was very shocked. So for that and that the writters weren't very creative and killed just about everybody off, I give it only 2 stars.

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My type of comedy
Bad transfer - everyone's short & fat
Eating Raoul - a tasty movie
Weird Dark Comedy
Good...But Not As Good As I Hoped

Eating Raoul [Region 2]

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Customer Reviews:

My type of comedy.......2007-07-15

This is the best of Paul Bartel. I have worn out a VHS tape watching it.

Bad transfer - everyone's short & fat.......2007-02-02

Eating Raoul - a tasty movie.......2006-03-09

Weird Dark Comedy.......2006-01-28

Good...But Not As Good As I Hoped.......2006-01-28

Average customer rating:

My type of comedy
Bad transfer - everyone's short & fat
Eating Raoul - a tasty movie
Weird Dark Comedy
Good...But Not As Good As I Hoped

Eating Raoul [Region 2]

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Customer Reviews:

My type of comedy.......2007-07-15

This is the best of Paul Bartel. I have worn out a VHS tape watching it.

Bad transfer - everyone's short & fat.......2007-02-02

Eating Raoul - a tasty movie.......2006-03-09

Weird Dark Comedy.......2006-01-28

Good...But Not As Good As I Hoped.......2006-01-28

Delicatessen [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - UK]

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Delicatessen [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - UK]

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ASIN: B000E607IU

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Region 2 encoding (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including Egypt). Requires multi-region or region free DVD player in the US. About the Movie: From its gloriously loopy opening sequence to its hilariously rhythmic love scene to its climactic showdown in the bowels of city sewers, Delicatessen is a bizarrely inspired, darkly comic fantasy. Not merely weird for weirdness' sake, the film is a surprisingly tender tale revolving around Louison (Dominique Pinon), a good man trapped in a bad world, forever pining for his lost soul-mate. Pinion's Louison is heroic, innocent and comic all at the same time. What makes Delicatessen most memorable, however, is its dream-like, post-apocalyptic look. Directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet devised the film with writer Gilles Adrien, primarily an author of comic books; given its unique visuals, it makes sense that the similarly inventive Terry Gilliam (Brazil) championed the film's worldwide release.

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