Mark Mylod's black comedy starts with a group of insufferable customers at a high-class restaurant and ends with a bang. The Menu is primarily a venue to poke fun at the self-obsessed nature of foodie culture, but it doubles as the story of an artist losing his passion.

The film, penned by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, "focuses on a young couple who visits an exclusive destination restaurant on a remote island where the acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu, along with some shocking surprise."Deadline notes, "Fiennes plays the world-class chef who sets it all up and adds some unexpected ingredients to the menu planned. The action follows one particular A-list couple that takes part. I've heard Stone will play half of that couple."The Menu / Film synopsis

It's a very satisfying combination of shocks, laughs, and ideas, and it's recommended to mature foodies. Expect gory moments, including blood spatters, a gunshot to the head, a severed finger, stabbing, hanging, a fight over a knife, gurgling blood, a character burning, and more death.

Heading into its sixth weekend in release, Searchlight Pictures' deliciously provocative thriller The Menu has proved to be a rare delicacy this year – an adult-skewing film that has prospered at the box office, serving up more than $65m worldwide and counting.

The Menu's characters can be divided into seven categories based on their story arcs, which suggests they allude to the biblical Seven Deadly Sins.

With splashes of horror and comedy, The Menu explores the world of fine dining restaurants. The movie has a stellar cast, including Fiennes and Taylor-Joy, who are incredible and magnetic together. The Menu delivers an engaging time and will leave the audience with a tantalizing sardonic meal.

Chef SlowikRalph FiennesTyler LedfordNicholas HoultLillianJanet McTeerKatherineChristina BrucatoJeremy LoucksAdam AalderksBoat WaiterJon Paul Allyn The Menu/Characters

Recently, Bon Appétit ran an interview with the screenwriters behind The Menu, Will Tracy (of the HBO hit Succession) and his former The Onion co-worker Seth Reiss. During the conversation, Tracy revealed that the inspiration for the film came from an actual high-end restaurant he visited on a remote Norwegian island.

black comedy horror The movie is billed as “black comedy horror,” but the horror that stalks this Agatha Christie-style island is not gore; it's gastronomy.

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In the movie's final moments, it emphasizes that Slowik, for all his moral righteousness, is just as broken as his customers. They've been ruined by a culture that loves food for all the wrong reasons, and the only way to escape is not to play.

The one exception, of course, is Margot, whose presence had been a surprise to him. In one scene, Slowik corners her in the bathroom and she reveals that she is actually a sex worker named Erin who had been hired by Tyler as his companion for the evening.