WARNING TO VEGETARIANS* Guto Parente takes a bite out of horror with his upcoming slasher flick, The Cannibal Club. Ana Luiza Rios and Tavinho Teixeira star as Gilda and Otavio, a kinky upper-class couple and decidedly active members of a secret cannibal club for Brazil’s wealthy and elite.
Synopsis: Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.
What do you get for the girl who has everything? Try: a swank seaside house, servants at her beck and call, and apparently in this tongue-in-cheek dark comedy, the tender flesh of the poor served à la churrascaria. The trailer does not hold back on the gore; it is bloody and in your face, with steaks of human meat donning the gilded plates of Brazil’s grossly indulgent elite class. At least in zombie movies the flesh eaters consume humans out of necessity, but in this film the flesh eaters have not a single redeeming quality as the ruling class citizens seduce and attack their servants. With a plucky score by Fernando Catatau contrasting against these morbidly cynical scenes, I am getting some very cool Wes Anderson meets horror vibes from this trailer, which I am now realizing is all I have ever wanted out of a film. Mincing the current rampant class inequality in Brazil with horror, this has potential to be one entertaining and self reflective horror trip if the completed movie is as frank and biting as the trailer. Jonathan Swift can eat his heart out as his satire is turned on its head and served cold in Guto Parente’s sexy, socially existential gorefest, The Cannibal Club.
The Cannibal Club premieres in select North America theaters March 1st via Uncork’d Entertainment and will be available On Demand March 5th.
