will arrive for dinner soon. With no meat in the house and no time to go grocery shopping, they cook Raoul and serve him for dinner, describing the dish as "Spanish". The Blands buy the building for their new restaurant, Paul and Mary's Country Kitchen. Cast Paul Bartel as Paul Bland Mary Woronov as Mary Bland Robert Beltran as Raoul Mendoza Susan Saiger as Doris the Dominatrix Ed Begley Jr. as Hippie Buck Henry as Mr. Leech (bank manager) Edie McClurg as Susan (woman in fur at swingers party) Richard Paul as Mr. Cray (liquor store owner) John Shearin as Mr. Baker Darcy Pulliam as Sheila the Nurse Hamilton Camp as John Peck - Dishonest Wine Buyer Allan Rich as Nazi John Paragon as Sex Shop Owner Critical reception Roger Ebert gave Eating Raoul two stars, explaining, "The movie's got some really funny stuff in it, and I liked a lot of it, and I wouldn't exactly advise not seeing it, but it doesn't quite go that last mile. It doesn't reach for the truly unacceptable excesses, the transcendent breaches of taste, that might have made it inspired instead of merely clever." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "One mustn't blunt its pleasures by calling it a laff riot. It is full of smiles, punctuated here and there by marvelously unseemly guffaws, but most of the time it works its little wonders quietly. The comic style is purposely flat, plain and ordinary, like a piece of Pop art." Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 86%, with an average rating of 6.8 out of 10, based on 21 reviews. The website's "Critics Consensus" for the film reads, "Eating Raoul serves up its spectacularly lurid tale with a healthy heaping of pitch-black humor and anarchic vigor." Home media On April 13, 2004, the long out-of-print film was released on DVD by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. On September 25, 2012, The Criterion Collection re-released the film on DVD and Blu-ray. Legacy Woronov and Bartel later appeared together as Mary and Paul Bland in a cameo in the film Chopping Mall (1986). Woronov and Beltran appeared together again in Night of the Comet (1984), though not as their Eating Raoul characters; the two also starred together in Bartel's critically acclaimed follow-up feature Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills in 1989. Musical Eating Raoul, a stage musical adaptation, was