Cassandra Morgan

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Flux Gourmet | Halloween 2022

I have no idea what I just watched. How the hell am I going to review this……

Flux Gourmet is the story of a culinary sonic art collective during their recent residency. The trio consists of the leader: Elle (Fatima Mohamed), and the two technical performers: Lamina (Ariane Labed) and Billy (Asa Butterfield). Jan Stevens (Gwendoline Christie) runs the residency program and tries to help the group improve their performance. The whole thing is being documented by journalist Stones (Makis Papadimitriou), who is having a problem with flatulence.

So, despite being listed as a horror movie, I definitely would not classify it as horror. There were a few scenes that were a little on the gross side but there isn’t anything that happens that would make it horror. Occasionally, the group is attacked by a competing group that lost out on the residency. But they don’t really attack any of the people until the very end. It’s only equipment that is attacked.

To be completely honest, I did not understand the point of the film at all. Neither did my husband. I was waiting for some sort of twist where maybe Jan was actually murdering the people she picked for the residency or Elle was going to cook one of the audience members or something. I kept waiting for something, anything, to happen and nothing did. All that happened was a man had a lot of intestinal distress and talked a lot about wanting to fart but not wanting anyone to hear his farts. Yes, the movie focuses on farts way too much.

Should you watch Flux Gourmet? Well, it’s currently available on Shudder. I don’t know that I can say not to watch it because I’m sure some of you will be curious about this weird thing after my mess of a review. However, I will say - if you decide to watch Flux Gourmet, try to go in with an open mind. Oh, and if you figure out the point of the movie, can you please tell me? I’d really like to know what the goal was.