LOVE AT FIRST BITE: CANNIBALISM AND ROMANCE
What's love if not consumption? When passion devours reason, cannibalism becomes the most honest metaphor for desire.
Sarah Stubbs is an online content creator with a passion for all things pop culture, especially food and horror. The latter were both early passions of Sarahโs. Her mother taught her how to cook at a young age, fostering that passion. Additionally, her mother was instrumental in her love of horror movies, showing her movies like House on Haunted Hill and all of the Universal Monster movies before the age of 10. All of these passions played into her creating Sarah Stubbs Says, as well as her other projects like the 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days Challenge.
Sarah also co-founded the site Geeks Who Eat with her husband Matthew in 2015 and is the co-host of Final Girls Feast.
What's love if not consumption? When passion devours reason, cannibalism becomes the most honest metaphor for desire.
Posted October 31, 2025 Written by Sarah Stubbs, Freelance Writer and Content Creator For a printable, PDF version of this article, please click here. "A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing. It starts holding onto things...keeping them alive when they shouldn't be.
As a gastro horror connoisseur and someone who writes about such topics, I'd be remiss if I didn't treat you all to a bit of horror featuring candy just in time for Halloween! After all, who doesn't miss the days of walking miles just to fill a pillowcase with treats?
Horror films featuring veganism/vegetarianism seem to be trending as of late with titles like Vegan (2024) and Chris Cooney aka The Vegan Zombie's A44 (2025), so when I saw Meat Kills was playing at Fantastic Fest, I was definitely intrigued. I saw people describe it as being heavily inspired by aughts horror.
If a film has any sort of gastro elements, I'm always going to be curious. This rings especially true if it is horror, thriller, mystery, or any mix of the 3. Dinner to Die For has elements of all three. I think folks will try to soften the film's edges by simply calling it a [...]
August 18th may seem like just any other August day, but to horror fans it's a holiday in its own right. Of course I'm talking about "Texas Chain Saw Day." When audiences see "August 18, 1973," emblazoned across the screen, they know that an "idyllic summer afternoon became a nightmare."
Bring Her Back is a haunting meditation on loss, care, and the quiet horror of unspoken trauma.
Gastro horror fans are eating well in 2025 (pun intended)! We're getting documentaries, comedies with cannibalism, and even a gastro creature feature called Haunted House of Pancakes! The writer of Attack of the Killer Donuts, Nathan Dalton, is back with this being his directorial debut!
For 25 years, the Final Destination franchise has shown audiences some of their worst fears realized. What most folks probably don't notice is that in every movie, including the newest entry, Final Destination Bloodlines, there is some form of gastro-related death. You're probably wondering what I'm even talking about and why it's relevant.
DINNER WITH LEATHERFACE opens with friends and colleagues of Gunnar Hansen discussing meals they shared. As someone who not only enjoys watching documentaries about films I love, but who is also fascinated by how food connects us both in real life and in storytelling, this immediately grabbed me.
Fine dining meets fatal consequences, a decadent descent into the horror of The Menu, House of Spoils, and What You Wish For.
From killer tomatoes to cursed sushi, horror has a long history of making us fear our food! Dive into the most terrifying eats in horror cinema.
DC Sarah reviews the latest dark fantasy and horror adjacent film from Searchlight Pictures, Nightbitch starring Amy Adams.
DCSarah reviews Searchlight Pictures' latest horror film, Hold Your Breath. She discusses prairie madness and it's contemporary relevance.
Sarah shares her review of The First Omen and discusses how it brings modernity to the franchise by differentiating itself from the original.
Sarah reviews "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" and asks the question, with its family-friendlier tones, does it still work?
The Family is a film that doesn't bring anything new to the Folk Horror pantheon but the slow burn remains a film worth watching.
Interviews
The combination of gastronomy and horror may not come to mind when considering ways to frighten humans, as the former often seduces the appetite while the latter accelerates the heartbeat with drea...
Horrorverse
Horrorverse Newsletter Posts Happy Halloween! ๐ Peruse our favorite haunted house horror ๐๏ธ, A celebration of 'Relic' ๐ป, & more! Pumpkin season coming to a close but we have a few more scares for you! With last week's issue discussing ghosts, it only felt natural to move on to Haunted Houses!
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Horrorverse Newsletter Posts Creepy ghost stories ๐ป, 'V/H/S/Halloween' delivers the goods ๐ผ, My grandmother's house is haunted, & more! Happy October everyone! Obviously, most of us celebrate the horror life year-round but there is just something a little bit more spine-tingling about October.
Horrorverse Newsletter Posts We get cozy ๐ด, Sarah Stubbs debuts Gore-met Pairings ๐ฒ, 'The Man with the Black Umbrella' creeps โ๏ธ, & more! With the change in weather, we're beginning to see the leaves change color, the air become cooler, and the sun setting earlier than we'd like (or not?).
Horrorverse Newsletter Posts We're back, baby! ๐ Read all about found footage ๐น, Texas Chain Saw rip-off 'Brute 1976' ๐ช, & the effectiveness of 'The Toxic Avenger' ๐บ When I was in high school, I discovered The Blair Witch Project . While I never got to see it theatrically, my vhs tape got a lot of play time.
Horrorverse Newsletter Posts #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days kicks off its sixth year ๐ฅ, Make sense of our Horror Subgenre Chart ๐, & more! As the challenge enters its 6 th year, its crazy to think how its grown. Born out of boredom during pre-vaccine/quarantine COVID, the challenge started as me and one other person.
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Non-Horror Film and Television Writing
DC Sarah shares her thoughts on Searchlight's latest release, The Roses. She compares it to its predecessor, War of the Roses and more.
DC Sarah has put together a viewer's guide for Agatha All Along. It includes character information, theories, and recommended reading.
DC Sarah gives her recommendations for movies, documentaries, and shorts with summer vibes available on Disney+.
Sarah reviews 'The Greatest Hits" and shares if she thinks this program is a hit on Hulu for her!
Happy Women's Month! March is the perfect time to celebrate some of the influential women in the world of Disney! This is the first of a pair of articles and will focus on something you can see when walking down Main Street in Disneyland. That's right, I'm talking about the women of the windows!
DC reviews Disney's latest live action remake, The Little Mermaid sharing what she loved about the film and why it is perfect for summer!
(From L-R): Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, and Jeffrey Wright in the film The French Dispatch. Over here at Geeks Who Eat Headquarters, we love a good movie with food elements. Normally, we aren't the biggest fans of Wes Anderson but ...
(L-r) TIMOTHรE CHALAMET as Paul Atreides and REBECCA FERGUSON as Lady Jessica Atreides As we are all certainly aware, COVID has delayed so many movies. With folks returning to the theater, some of the most highly anticipated releases are finally ...
Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) in Marvel Studios' SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. Welcome to the newest part of Geeks Who Eat, Geeks Who Review! In creating our recipes, we watch a TON of movies. So we figured, why ...