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Cannibal Mukbang Review: Blood, Sex & Food Collide in a Slow Slow SLOW Slow-Burn Thriller
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Ready for a wild ride through love, revenge, and a very unconventional dinner date? In this episode of Stream of Demons, Jo breaks down the award-winning Cannibal Mukbang (written & directed by Amy Kerch), unpacking everything from its striking poster art to its deliberate pacing and jaw-dropping practical effects. Is it horror? Romance? A Gen Z fever dream? Jo covers:
- Why the first act feels like a marathon
- The movie’s blend of gritty realism and surreal fantasy
- Special-effects highlights that save the day
- Whether these characters ever truly click
- Formulaic twists and a finale you’ll see coming
Tune in, then watch Cannibal Mukbang yourself—drop your thoughts at https://linktr.ee/Emptyhell and join the conversation!
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Transcript
Intro
00:00:05
Jo
good
Introduction and Humor
00:00:06
Jo
as she's saying sorry i was not doing monkey songs i don't know what you heard this is not the monkeys channel full disclosure i think the monkeys are better than the beatles come at me bro come fight me now all right today we've got cannibal mukbang and yes i had to look that up no okay i lied And someone else looked it up for me, and they said it was a real word.
00:00:36
Jo
Yes,
Warnings about Googling Terms
00:00:36
Jo
I know cannibal is a real word, the mukbang part. And do yourself favor, don't Google it. Don't Google sounding either. They're both the same intonations.
Mixed Feelings on 'Cannibal Mukbang'
00:00:48
Jo
So I got this screener of bit ago, and I watched this with somebody because, you know, that's what we do now. I watched it yesterday, and I have to say ah ah couple of things.
00:01:00
Jo
First, Amy Cooge. I'm going to kill your name. Everyone kills my name, so welcome to the Name Killing Club. How are you? I believe the concept here was well thought.
00:01:14
Jo
I love the artwork, the poster. Who did the poster? Whoever did the poster was amazing. If you haven't seen the Cannibal Mukbang poster, Blood, Sex, and Food, like this is tight. It looks so freaking cool.
00:01:27
Jo
It is an award-winning, it's been a winning awards left and right and center.
Praise for the Preview
00:01:32
Jo
And here's the thing. I am not in the Rotten Tomato 95% on this, I'm so sorry.
00:01:43
Jo
I'm also not on the IMDb haters list either. I'm kind of in between. And here here it is. If you are reading an IMDb, what does this say? An exploration of one's relationship with food, sexuality, and revenge.
00:01:56
Jo
It asks, how far would you go and in the name of love? In the name of love, one man. I'm not going to start doing bono. Sorry. Okay. No more overseas people songs. Got it.
Critique of Pacing and Plot
00:02:10
Jo
I will say the preview for this is well done. It's tight. It's cut. It's great. It makes people want to watch the movies written and directed by Amy Kerch.
00:02:26
Jo
The pulling off of this, and this is where written and directed by the same person might have shot in at foot. It's got pacing issues, as kids.
00:02:36
Jo
I hate to tell you this. like Act one is like 45 fucking minutes long. I'm pretty sure that's act one and it starts it well. It starts like a little meet cute type thing and you kind of buy it a bit and then all reality just fucking leaves it without spoiling I mean, this is like the first three fucking minutes. So you're not even past the credit roll.
00:02:59
Jo
This redhead meets this dude and dude's awkward And she hits him with her van or some shit.
Realism vs. Fantasy Critique
00:03:11
Jo
And then magically he appears in her apartment. She's like a bucko seven, you know, and he's not the smallest dude, a huge dude, but he's not the smallest dude in the world.
00:03:25
Jo
So I can't imagine kind of like dragging his ass to the van instead of calling the cops or police whatever the fuck it is. And then somehow dragging them to my apartment.
00:03:37
Jo
And I'm like, I have a bad shoulder right now. i'm like, my God. I was like, how's her fucking shoulders doing? She just dragged this dude like it was nothing? Like, has she got magical powers? Like, is this talconeces or what? So if you get past that part and, like, the awkward flirting, of we get that. And he's like, out of there. Sure, all good.
00:03:54
Jo
You know, then he's got some really made-up job. it's all It's all fine. He's doing a help desk. I'm like, are you really, dude? You're really the help desk for DoorDash? I don't know.
00:04:05
Jo
This doesn't seem right. And I do want to say parts of this are grounded in realism and parts are grounded in fantasy la-la land and it's not the parts you think.
00:04:17
Jo
It's not the part you think. So as this movie develops, people have been calling it a romantic horror movie.
Character and Plot Logic Issues
00:04:25
Jo
I don't see it. I don't see it.
00:04:28
Jo
Some people are saying a romantic comedy is fucking not that at all. So sorry. Romantic slow, slow, slow burn. Like very fucking slow burn. If slow burns are your jam, well, motherfucker, bring some matches because this is... There's slow burns and then there's like fucking lighting a fire, like Jack London to light a fire story where all the matches keep blowing out.
00:04:50
Jo
That's this movie. There are parts that are good. There are actually parts that are good. They have a fucking trailer. It's amazing. So there's quick parts in there. this The story is... here we go.
00:05:01
Jo
This is like a Gen Z story. Maybe it's just, maybe I'm Gen X. Maybe it's just not my fucking jam. There are no likable characters in this. There's no believable characters in this either.
00:05:14
Jo
There's no real characters in this, period. It is a plot-driven piece where the characters have to do it because that's what the plot fucking says. And the physics of the world don't make sense.
Action Scenes and Ending Critique
00:05:28
Jo
Like there's a part where Ash, played by April Canzalo, breaks a guy's arm like but almost by snapping the fucking finger. So she's just fucking strong. She can break someone's fucking forearm almost in half.
00:05:45
Jo
by almost zero effort at all. And she becomes unconscious by being hit in a bottle. She gets hit in the head of with a fucking bottle. Not a beer bottle, a goddamn fucking 750 milliliter bottle.
00:05:58
Jo
The bottle shatters, unconscious, and she just kind of like brushes it off, like fucking Undertaker. You know, you you really have to suspend the disbelief up the yang for this one.
00:06:12
Jo
And you have things like Mark being played by Nate Wise and Maverick. His brother's name is Maverick. And he's like, oh, I have a brother named Maverick. She didn't say anything. You know, someone told me, like, I have a brother named Maverick. Like, talk to me, a Goose. Like, what the fuck you want?
00:06:26
Jo
Like, there's no comebacks. All men are scum. If you want to see a movie where it's kind of like all men are scum and that's your philosophy, then knock yourself out. Cannibal mukbang is your fucking jam, I guess.
00:06:38
Jo
If you want to see a movie that goes nowhere for 45 fucking minutes, cannibal mukbang is your jam. If you want to see movie that has characters that believable, it ain't your jam.
00:06:49
Jo
If you want to see something that has suspense, it ain't your
Special Effects Praise
00:06:51
Jo
jam. If you don't know the ending, the cannibal mukbang within the first 30 minutes of this fucking film, you need to see more fucking movies.
00:07:03
Jo
the ending The ending's formulaic. For the pacing issues it has, it's weird because it's mostly paint by number.
00:07:14
Jo
Everything else is kind of like MFA. It's MFA. I hate to trash people that. I'm so sorry. But it's really, maybe it's just not my jam, man. You check it out.
00:07:27
Jo
the There's acting sparks. There's sparks of acting in it. But maybe the editing botches it. Maybe it's just not that it, I don't know. What really works well, what works amazingly well, the special effects. Whoever does special effects, hats off.
00:07:45
Jo
You save the fucking moving to being redeemable. The special effects are top notch.
Generational Disconnect and Film Criticism
00:07:51
Jo
They're all practical, by the way. Everything else is just like... right went um So give it a shout.
00:07:58
Jo
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe my generation doesn't connect with this movie. Maybe it's just me. But movie's an hour and 44 minutes and honest to God, it's an hour too long.
00:08:10
Jo
Like honest to fucking God, this has been great fucking short. However, it's also winning awards. So what the fuck do I know? You know, whatever. Cannibal Mukbang.
00:08:20
Jo
Look it up. Go watch it. You tell me what you thought of it. Perfect part. I don't give star ratings or anything like that anymore. But I would say it's a movie.
Conclusion and Teaser for Next Episode
00:08:33
Jo
There you go. All that and more on this stream of Demons. Next up, we're doing Barry Season 2 with my co-host Amelie. Back in black, darling. Bye, y'all. Play my music.