Vote up the weirdest scenes that made you see food in a whole new way.
It doesn't matter what genre of movie we're watching - if someone eats a meal in any way that's just off-kilter, then we're out. The following scenes we've collected here aren't just a little weird when it comes to food. They completely fall into the WTF category of food scenes.
These scenes aren't necessarily gross, although some of them definitely are. They use food in unusual ways that no one would expect when they're sitting down to watch a romantic comedy or a Christmas movie. Some of the scenes feature dishes everyone knows, but they're devoured in a truly strange way. Other scenes contain concoctions we wouldn't wish upon our worst enemy. Bon appetit.
There are two scenes from Temple of Doom that are seared into the brains of every '80s kid: Evil priest Mola Ram ripping a guy's heart out, and Indy feasting on monkey brains straight out of the little guy's skull. The scene in question occurs when Indy and his companions Short Round and Willie Scott sit down for dinner with a northern Indian maharajah. Things go off the rails immediately when eyeball soup is deposited in front of Willie. Yes, eyeball soup. As in a big bowl of soup that has eyeballs floating around inside of it.
So that soup is already gross to look at, but then another delicacy is brought out. A group of servants holding the decapitated heads of a clan of monkeys walks into the dining room and places a furry noggin in front of every diner before removing the skull to expose their brains. Willie faints at the sight, and frankly, so would we.
Freddy Krueger is famously not a good guy. He spent an entire decade wiping out every teen who dared to dream on Elm Street in Springwood, OH - but why does he have to go and ruin the concept of dinner for us? The Dream Child is the fifth entry in this wildly imaginative horror franchise, and even though you can feel the air going out the balloon in this movie, the effects are impossible to ignore.
All of the Nightmare on Elm Street films have terrific nightmare sequences, but the dinner dream takes the cake, quite literally. During this brutal nightmare, a young model named Greta is force-fed portions of a doll that look like her while her cheeks fill up and get all gooey. The grossest moment occurs when Krueger pulls away the doll to reveal that he's been feeding Greta pieces of her own intestines. It's nasty. To top things off, Greta ends the nightmare by springing out of heroine Alice Johnson's fridge in all of her disgusting glory. It'll make you think twice about going for a late-night snack.
Anyone who's been locked in an apartment for 15 years eating nothing but Chinese takeout will tell you that the first thing you want to do once you escape is beat up a bunch of guys and then eat a live squid. Or at least that's the first thing that Oh Dae-su does after escaping from his imprisonment.
It's not crazy that Oh Dae-su eats squid. This delicacy can be served in hundreds of variations, but no one really eats this undersea creature in quite the same way as our hero. Rather than order up a plate of calamari, he grabs a live squid from a plate, shoves its head in his mouth, and rips the tentacles off with his teeth. There's a lot of weird, intense stuff happening in Oldboy, but the squid scene really takes the cake.
There's nothing like eating out at a fancy restaurant. Not only is it fun to get dressed up and go out with your friends, but it's also nice to eat something that you can't make at home.
In Brazil, Terry Gilliam shows how an exciting night out would play in a dystopia, and yeah, it's full of overdressed folks who are excited to eat piles of green slop served on a silver platter. There are so many things about this scene that make it weird.
First of all, most of the diners have clearly been to this restaurant before, but they're still excited about this super-gross slop. It's not clear what this stuff is made out of, but if we're going off of other dystopian movies, it's either people (duh) or it's just reprocessed matter, which is equally as gross. The worst part about these pieces of slop is the color that sits somewhere between pistachio and avocado green.
Tampopo is an incredibly strange and funny take on English film tropes by the Japanese director Juzo Itami, a master of the "ramen Western." Concerning a young woman who wants to learn how to make the best noodles possible, the film is packed with weird food moments.
Do you want to see someone lick an oyster out of another person's hand? How about a person who eats an entire bowl of ramen, broth and all, in one take? Tampopo has you covered, but its most WTF food scene follows the life of an egg yolk as it passes back and forth between the mouths of two lovers as an especially icky form of foreplay. It's not how most people would eat an egg, but if that's how you like to get your protein, then go for it.
Everyone in the tail of Snowpiercer subsists on what are commonly referred to as "protein bars." These aren't the protein bars that you jam on while you're out on a hike. No, sir. Everyone in the tail stockpiles the protein bars because they don't know when they're going to be cut off from their one source of food. But what are the protein bars made of? Oh, just a great source of protein - cockroaches. Blech.
It's one thing to know that the protein bars are made of cockroaches, but the real gut punch comes when Chris Evans and his crew make their way to the section of Snowpiercer where the protein bars are made and discover a vat of scurrying cockroaches that are being crushed down into bars, ready to be eaten.
