House of Spoils
(2024)
★ 5.5 IMDb · 160 votes
Year: 2024
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Danielle Krudy, Bridget Savage Cole
Cast: Ариана Дебос, Барби Феррейра, Ариан Мойед, Мартон Чокаш, Amara Karan, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Гэбриэлль Дрэйк, Имола Гаспар, Сонья Орослан, Soroosh Lavasani
Plot
An ambitious chef opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.
The ambitious assistant of the famous Chef Marcello quits her job to work as a Chef in a new remote restaurant in the countryside, despite the offer from Marcello to double her salary. She delivers her apartment and moves to live in the restaurant owned by Andres. The place is dirty with insects, and she has hard work to clean the kitchen. Andres is in a hurry to open the place since he has many debts and invites a group of selected friends, including his investor, to write reviews about the new place. However, there is an infestation of insects and a rabbit destroys her vegetable garden, and the Chef loses her supplies and is forced to improvise dishes. But the famous food critic Hiral Sen does not like the food, the investor gives up the business and Andres fires her. But the Chef asks for one more chance to Andres that reluctantly accepts her request. She chases the rabbit to kill it and sees a creepy garden with several plants. She tastes them with her assistant Lucia and they decide to use them in her new trial with several guests. Meanwhile the Chef is haunted by nightmares, and she learns that a witch lived in that area and was the previous owner of the restaurant, but she vanished. Will the Chef and the restaurant succeed?