Finally vacation. Where could you be drunk better than at the pool of an idyllic holiday home in southern France? For John (Fahri Yardım) and Esther (Valerie Pachner) this dream in Delicious unfortunately does not even fulfill. What begins as a carefree family vacation film quickly turns into an uncomfortable thriller, which even turns directly into horror-realms shortly before the end.
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The end of Delicious explains: Netflix thriller turns into brutal cannibal horror
Directly, director and screenwriter Nele Mueller stoves in the Netflix film tears paradise: John drives the local Theodora (Carla Díaz) over the heap on the first night. Instead of taking the young woman to the hospital, a few banknotes should buy her silence. A short time later, Theodora is just around the corner – and offers her services as a housekeeper.
For a long time, Delicious is changing in the footsteps of the snappy social satire Parasite. In the end, however, there is a twist that hardly anyone should have expected: Theodora is by no means targeting the wealth of the German holiday family. Rather Does she want to devour them. “From now on, meat is back on the menu “as Uruk-Hai leader Uglúk would say. Human meat to be precise.
Delicious turns out to be a completely new meaning on his last meters as an unexpected cannibal horror, which gives the title-in German: delicious. Theodora planned the feast with her group down to the smallest detail, which John, Esther and Co. noticed far too late. Various scars and disappeared people occasionally provide clues. Theodora doesn’t do this for the first time.
Cannibalism in vacation paradise: The twist at the end of Delicious is still shocked by Esther that the meat she enjoyed on the beach apparently from the poor amber (
Melodie Casta) comes from which any trace suddenly lacks. Before she looks at Esther, she ends up on the menu herself. Philipp (Caspar Hoffmann), Johns and Esther’s son, also unknowingly incorporated human meat – namely his own father. This becomes clear by the ring, which he spits out.
Only Alba (Naila Schuberth), Philipp’s sister and daughter of John and Esther, escapes the nightmare unscathed. She already made friends with Theodora and joins her group at the end of the film, who embarks on the way to the next meal with her motorcycles. Delicious is at least waiting for a figure with a happy ending. For the most part, the rest does not survive.
Delicious has been streaming at Netflix since March 7, 2025.