From “Se7en” to “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” spaghetti always shows up in plots designed to terrify
Back in the ’90s, when it was still socially appropriate to scare the pants off your kids and their friends on Halloween, many of us remember attending a party or two with a “Dead Man’s Body” buffet: In the popular party game, we were encouraged by adults to stick our hands into bowls of increasingly gross-feeling stuff for a spooky sensory experience.
And perhaps it’s that root, the squick imprinted on our brains as we touch that clammy pasta, that makes spaghetti the scariest food. Or at least the scariest-looking food. Sure, one could say that other dishes, likethat were trending at fancy restaurants in 2019, have more intrinsic appeal for terror, but none have the same universality as spaghetti.
Using spaghetti to create fear on film is a move that makes real sense. When coated in sauce , it’s easy to make spaghetti noodles look like bloody entrails or disembodied veins. They can also seem eerily alive thanks to their wriggly, tangled look, as in that creepy scene in, where a mulleted Kiefer Sutherland uses his vampire magic to turn a box of lo mein noodles into a nauseating box of wriggling earthworms.
That aesthetic — and the gross-out power of decay — is also much more effective if you’re looking at something that’s extremely familiar. Most of us haven’t been chased by a murderous killer, but we’ve all seen a bowl of spaghetti. According to the film’s director, the dank, disgusting vibe of
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