Consuming Passions is a 1988 black comedy film which stars Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, and Sammi Davis and was directed by Giles Foster.

The film is based on Secrets by Michael Palin and Terry Jones,[2] a BBC television play broadcast in 1973.

However, during the production run a worker falls into a vat of chocolate and dies, meaning human flesh is present in the first batch released.

Keen to continue the success, the developers try to replicate the taste with animal meat, but this fails miserably - leading them to realise human flesh is the key ingredient, and going to extreme lengths to obtain dead bodies to use in the chocolate.

"[3] Writing in The Washington Post, Desson Howe noted that the film "is kept bubbling by Foster's fast pace, and hysterically oddball performances by Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce and Sammi Davis.