Pleasures of the Flesh
2 Episodes
You are what you eat—literally—in this double helping of cannibal capers. Two desperate Arctic adventurers get, um, creative in order to survive in Ben Pearce’s deliciously macabre short A FEW MILES SOUTH, starring Toby Jones and Ivanno Jeremiah in a wordless duet of rapidly escalating weirdness. It’s the deadpan appetizer to the full-course black-comic transgression of Paul Bartel’s outré “me-generation” satire EATING RAOUL, with cult icons Bartel and Mary Woronov as the prudish couple who hit upon an unconventional scheme to realize their dream of opening a restaurant.
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14:25Episode 1
A Few Miles South
Episode 1
Directed by Ben Pearce • 2021 • United Kingdom
Starring Toby Jones, Ivanno JeremiahThe year is 1910. Two arctic explorers, Ted and Eric, find themselves trapped inside their tent with a ravenous polar bear roaming outside. But as food supplies dwindle, they quickly realize that the beast lying ...
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1:23:41Episode 2
Eating Raoul
Episode 2
Directed by Paul Bartel • 1982 • United States
Starring Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert BeltranA sleeper hit of the early 1980s, EATING RAOUL is a bawdy, gleefully amoral tale of conspicuous consumption. Warhol superstar Mary Woronov and cult legend Paul Bartel (who also directed) portray a p...