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Horror Caviar - like most of A24 products - is built to appeal to a certain type of millennial, i.e. Devoted horror cinephiles will also be pleased by the inclusion of international, historic, and more obscure horror films, as well, such as Nobuhiko ObayashiвЂ™s House, Mario BavaвЂ™s Blood and Lace, and the fungi fear fest Matango by IshirЕЌ Honda (the co-creator of Godzilla). Expectedly, a handful of A24 films, like Ari AsterвЂ™s Midsommar and Robert EggersвЂ™ The Witch, have dedicated recipes in the book. Recipes are inspired by iconic, beloved horror films, like Takashi MiikeвЂ™s Audition (bone and pork dumplings with black angel hair pasta), Dario ArgentoвЂ™s Suspiria (an aspic tower studded with insect candy), and Kasi LemmonsвЂ™ EveвЂ™s Bayou (red palm fruit shepherdвЂ™s pie). On November 17, A24 released Horror Caviar, a cookbook that exploits and embraces our conflicting repulsion and craving for food as horror. Ultimately, food horror is body horror, a reminder that we too are animals that consume and will ultimately be consumed, one way or another.

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WhatвЂ™s scared us has changed over the centuries, but food has remained an effective mechanism in horror: Lo mein turns into worms in a California town terrorized by vampires a babysitter awaits a pizza delivery, unaware that she is prey a grieving tourist in a remote community in Sweden hallucinates that the feast in front of her is still breathing.ДЇood, in other words, is full of death and violence - fruit, once off the vine, will rot animals donвЂ™t march happily to their slaughter. A bite of an apple or pomegranate expels two people from paradise a Roman general invites his enemies to a banquet where he feeds them pies filled with the flesh of their sons a brother and sister abandoned by their parents in the Bavarian forest discover an edible house, in actuality a witchвЂ™s bait. In thousands of years of storytelling, food has either disguised dangers or, if appealing enough, led people to ignore their own safety for the chance of a taste.