Synopsis
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
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Cast
- Paul BartelPaul Bland
- Mary WoronovMary Bland
- Robert BeltranRaoul Mendoza
- Susan SaigerDoris the Dominatrix / Nurse Sally Cummings
- Richard PaulMr. Cray
- John ShearinMr. Baker
- Darcy PulliamNurse Sheila
- Garry GoodrowDrunk Swinger
- Richard BlackburnJames from the Valley
- Hamilton CampJohn Peck
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Paul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy. - 90
Time Out
The most delicious blackly comic collision of sex, food and murder, Bartel's film arrives as a delightful surprise from the former court jester of Roger Corman's exploitation stable. - 88
Slant Magazine
A delirious rejoinder to the post-sexual revolution counter-culture wars, director Paul Bartel’s script crosses the let’s-get-down-to-social-brass-tacks satire of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was respectfully vindictive of Los Angeles’s middle-class hedonism, with the straight-faced über-misanthropy of Kind Hearts and Coronets. - 83
The A.V. Club
Despite the casual homicide and a premise rich with Reagan-era political undertones, the gleeful satire draws inspiration as much from Bugs Bunny as Luis Buñuel. - 80
The New York Times
It is full of smiles, punctuated here and there by marvelously unseemly guffaws, but most of the time it works its little wonders quietly. - 80
Empire
It shouldn't work, but it does. - 80
Film Threat
An endearing view of a past time and filmmaking style – think Corman with a heart – Eating Raoul offers a bare Woronov, a prime slice of sexy-ugly that can never be duplicated, just like this film. - 70
Variety
The appeal of Paul Bartel’s tongue-in-cheek approach is that he manages to take his story to such a ridiculous extreme, remain genuinely funny and successfully tell his perverse story.
