Omnivores
Directed by Oscar Rojo
Written by Oscar Rojo
Starring Mario de la Rosa, Paco Manzanedo, Marta Flich, and Fernando Albizu
Netflix |
Amazon Instant Video
Not Rated | 84 Minutes
Release Date: September 20, 2013 (Spain)

Currently streaming on Netflix is Omnivores, a Spanish horror film that debuted last year. The film opens in a dingy cabin where a woman lays dying next to her young son. The boy, with no recourse, is left to cannibalism and is discovered in a gruesome scene.

We jump years later to Marcos Vela (Mario de la Rosa), a celebrity food critic. His next assignment: explore the world of underground clandestine restaurants. These aren’t your typical restaurants. They are gatherings of rich foodies who pay through the roof for the finest and sometimes strangest cuisines. Kobe beef with truffles, the dreaded fugu fish of Japan, nothing seems too expensive or off limits to his new gastronomical friends. It’s through these connections that he begins to hear rumors of a “restaurant” that serves the ultimate in rare cuisine: human flesh.