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Title: 'The Menu' Director: Mark Mylod ('What's Your Number?,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Succession') Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult,

“The Menu” director Mark Mylod comes to his latest film fresh off of a three-year run on HBO’s “Succession,” which — if you’ll excuse the pun — makes him ripe for satirizing the world of haute cuisine and the wealthy idiots who eat it. Katie Rife reviews this sharp horror film.

Succession and Game of Thrones director Mark Mylod returns with the new food-themed horror-thriller The Menu, co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, John Leguizamo, and Aimee Carrero as patrons in a haute cuisine restaurant where the chef has lethal designs on everyone who eats his food. Debuts in theaters Nov. 18.

"The Menu" is one of the rare movies, along with classics like "Big Night" and "Babette's Feast," that revolves almost completely around a singular meal. But unlike those odes to pleasure, "The Menu" starts out as a deluxe culinary experience for the 1%, but then devolves into something much darker -- and far less appetizing. Ralph Fiennes stars as the renowned Chef Slowik, whose relentless ...

ComingSoon spoke with The Menu writers Will Tracy and Seth Reiss about balancing drastically different tones and their experiences with fine dining.

"The Menu" director Mark Mylod on how he devised the end of the film starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes

“The Menu” director Mark Mylod comes to his latest film fresh off of a three-year run on HBO’s “Succession,” which — if you’ll excuse the pun — makes him ripe for satirizing the world of haute cuisine and the wealthy idiots who eat it. Katie Rife reviews this sharp horror film.

The Menu expresses the same feelings about art and consumerism that Pig did last year but with half the power.

A look at how the creators of the new satirical film, now streaming on HBO Max, took the already high-pressure world of elite restaurants to a thrilling and terrifying level.

New film from "Succession's" Mark Mylod is tasty but not filling