WARNING! Spoilers for Cadaver ahead.
Netflix's Cadaver takes place at an ominous hotel in a post-apocalyptic world where food is scarce, but acting is plentiful. As Leonora (Gitte Witt) and her husband Jacob (Thomas Gullestad) wander the halls of Mathias's (Thorbjørn Harr) hotel, they discover that there are pathways that lead to human butcher shops. While Leonora uncovered the truth of Mathias's plans, the actors are entirely unaware of their true purpose — here's why.
Jarand Herdal's feature-length directorial debut follows Leonora and Jacob after they acquire tickets to a dinner theater party hosted by Mathias at his grandiose hotel. While they are initially denied entry with their daughter, they are eventually allowed in and enjoy a hot meal. In this post-apocalyptic world, food resources are few and far between. As a result, no one questions where the hotel gets their products. Only Leonora and Jacob discover that it is actually human meat, and everyone who attends these dinners are committing cannibalism.
Haunted hotels are a popular location for supernatural horror movies to utilize. For example, in the latest installment of the Wrong Turn franchise, Last Resort, it was used to set up an origin story for the cannibal family. Herdal takes Cadaver's relatively simple premise and makes his central location one of the most horrific hotels in horror history. However, there's still quite a few mysteries about how Mathias' macabre food sourcing works, and how the actors play into the whole situation. With dark hallways that lead to meat hooks, which draw parallels to movies like Hellraiser and The Midnight Meat Train, every wrong turn Leonora makes leads her closer to uncovering the truth about the hotel and its actors.
When guests arrive at the hotel, they are informed that they will participate in an interactive play; they must follow the actors to allow for their story to unfold. In order to ensure that everyone is aware of their place in the hotel, the actors do not wear masks, but the guests do. Each room contains a picture that has a button on it that opens up trap doors that the guests fall through to meet their gruesome fate. Only some guests are selected to survive; they are allowed to stay at the hotel as residents and actors.
The hotel was set up by Mathias in order to keep his family alive, but after a fire killed his daughter, he made it so that no one would feel alone in their post-apocalyptic world ever again. He was afraid of being alone, so he created the hotel. The only way to keep people coming to it was to offer them something they didn't have — food. Mathias has a core group of actors that includes Rakel, who was presumably one of the first to trick a group of guests into becoming dinner. The actors aren't entirely aware of the cannibalism due to the fact that, if they knew, they would likely rise against Mathias, as was proven by the ending of Cadaver.
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November 07, 2020 at 05:00AM
