April Consalo naked in Cannibal Mukbang

USA. Horror.

Writer/director Aimee Kuge was inspired by a story she overheard at a party about a bad Tinder date, wherein a young woman went to a man’s house to have a home-cooked meal. After dinner, he told her she couldn’t stay over. The young woman went home, but experienced a bad stomach ache the following day. It got so intense that she went to the ER, where she was told the contents of the food she consumed had human DNA in it. Kuge didn’t know if the story was true, but it inspired her to write this script.

Per Wikipedia:

A mukbang (literally ’eating broadcast’ in Korean) is an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host consumes various quantities of food (generally from easily accessible and popular fast-food restaurant chains) while interacting with the audience or reviewing it. The genre became popular in South Korea in the early 2010s, and has become a global trend since the mid-2010s.

I’ve enjoyed three of the four films in this tetralogy, this one and:

• Cardinal Mukbang, the obese holy man from the Philippines
• Carnival Mukbang, when people get even fatter on Fat Tuesday

Of course, there’s one weak entry in the series:

• Cannavale Mukbang, which is just a beloved, middle-aged actor eating a balanced breakfast.