Netflix is constantly importing their international content for American audiences, and they seem to pick and choose what gets audio description and what doesn’t, even if the film has no profile other than the one Netflix is giving it. This is true of the repulsive delicious, a film misguided on every level, that revels in its sadistic intentions, and ultimately fails to even deliver on that promise. It may claim to be one of the more shocking films you could watch, but having seen films like Bones And All, I’d beg to differ.

Delicious is basically about a family that makes the wrong decision by inviting this seemingly lost girl into their household, as she turns out to have misguided intentions, and is secretly part of a subculture of cannibals. There’s a little bit of violence in here, but most of the shots are quick, and don’t linger. For an audience that has become desensitized by seeing zombies constantly feasting on flesh, and cannibal culture explored in more dramatic form in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All, this seems like a film late to a party. We’ve already been shocking audiences, with material far more offensive than this. I’ll admit, the pointless ending to this was kind of gross, but mostly I just regretted my choice to ever have clicked on this.

I’m sure I’ll watch something worse than this in 2025, which scares me more than this movie, but there’s nothing worth watching here. It isn’t even gory enough to appease horror fans. On top of that, Netflix keeps commissioning audio description voiced by AI for its international titles that they don’t care much about. So, the track isn’t great either. There’s nothing I could say about this film, except perhaps that the original cast might be good actors, and are just saddled with translation that doesn’t work.

Rotten: Final Grade: D, Audio Description: C