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Menu Total
Menu Total
6.3
/10
314 Ratings

MENU TOTAL

Directed by Christoph Schlingensief
West Germany, 1986
Thriller

Synopsis

A traumatised young man who his abused by his father descends into dark fantasies where he imagines himself as Hitler and exterminates his family. Meat, Your Parents: Menu Total is a morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour.

Synopsis

A traumatised young man who his abused by his father descends into dark fantasies where he imagines himself as Hitler and exterminates his family. Meat, Your Parents: Menu Total is a morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour.

Our take

Christoph Schlingensief’s second feature film is a grainy black-and-white nightmare, with a tone and texture reminiscent of early talkies. A spiteful and wacky representation of the lingering influence of Nazism in a fictional Germany filled with freakish sickos.